Best Double Meaning Quotes

#1. I tried to speak insipidly, yet everything I said seemed to take on a double meaning.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. Keep your right up or there'll be nothing left of you." - 100 Bullets

I love this quote because it has double meaning.

Brian Azzarello

#4. All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. I'm a sucker for double meanings in titles.

Nick Blaemire

#6. Amphibians - the word comes from the Greek meaning 'double life.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#7. If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

Mae West

#8. There was a way of looking at the world where practically every single thing that happened had some kind of double meaning.

Joyce Maynard

#9. Hard-bitten had a double meaning: bitten hard by life, like her, or clamping meanly down on other people. But, as though belying his thoughts, she said, "I hope your days are good."
"If only. My eyes, you know, are like Swiss cheese, the doctor says. I see through the holes.

Edward Hoagland

#10. The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

Ronnie Barker

#11. Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#12. Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

Victor Hugo

#13. She barely hid a smile. "That's a wizard's answer if I ever heard one." "Meaning that mages deal in double talk?" His grin was impish. "That's one of our two occupational hazards." "And what's the other one?" He laughed. "A deplorable tendency to meddle.

Barbara Hambly

#14. Bond frowned. 'It's not difficult to get a Double O number if you're prepared to kill people,' he said. 'That's all the meaning it has. It's nothing to be particularly proud of.

Ian Fleming

#15. Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Logan Pearsall Smith