Best Circus Quotes

#1. A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

H.L. Mencken

#2. Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

Orson Welles

#3. Prediction is the best circus act of all. But it is just an act. It's a carny turn. Stop doing it.

Warren Ellis

#4. I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.

Ashley Madekwe

#5. Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.

Shane Claiborne

#6. I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief
even the dogs were howling.

Sara Gruen

#7. When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to focus more on the challenges ahead, and so I started at Methodist College Belfast.

Ian Beattie

#8. That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

Nigel Lythgoe

#9. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering. ~ Unknown

Melinda Curtis

#10. Now the circus is open. Now you may enter.

Erin Morgenstern

#11. Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

Tom Hodgkinson

#12. The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

Claude Debussy

#13. The right to lead a life free of fear is a fundamental right of all living beings. But this fundamental right is being brutally violated by humans in animal testing, meat and dairy industry, circus, zoos, aquariums, and sports.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#14. When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

Baz Luhrmann

#15. I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

Rupert Graves

#16. I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

Mary Ellen Mark

#17. Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

E.W. Howe

#18. I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake.

Steven Wright

#19. As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.

Wally Schirra

#20. Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

George Bernard Shaw