Bon Mot Quotes

#1. They were eyes made for laughter, but not raucous yuks; rather, for the laughter of wit, of erudition, of the bon mot.

Stephen Hunter

#2. I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

Harold E. Varmus

#3. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

Albert Einstein

#4. Dorothy Parker once said: I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid." Upon delivering this Dot bon mot, with much waving of sparkly rings and jingly bracelets, Constance Langtry comments that she'd add a fourth: "Deft tongue. And I don't mean a good talker.

Marie Wilson

#5. The state might say that it had taken a year to write the book, and the author might say it had taken thirty. Goethe said that every bon mot of his had cost a purse of gold. What

Upton Sinclair

#6. You need not hurry when the object is only to prevent my saying a bon mot, for there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter-of-fact, plain-spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

Jane Austen

#7. You just put your boot so far up his ass, he'll have to eat his dinner with a shoehorn." "I can always count on you for a suitable bon mot.

Douglas Preston

#8. In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

Honore De Balzac

#9. When I was seven I wanted to be a footballer, but when I was 14, I wanted to be a model. Look where it's put me now!

David Beckham

#10. Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.

Paul Ryan

#11. I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

Johnny Vegas

#12. The one I can't imagine anyone taking seriously, but was one of my favorites, was the mesh football jersey top, paired with a really short pair of athletic shorts.

Tyler Hoechlin

#13. Talent is a spooky thing, and has a way of announcing itself quietly but firmly when the right time comes. Like certain addictive drugs, it comes as a friend long before you realize it's a tyrant.

Stephen King

#14. He is my soul mate, my fresh air, the reason I look forward to getting up every morning.

Tabitha Suzuma