Poppycock Quotes

#1. Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.

David Ogilvy

#2. I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.

Wendell Berry

#3. The English language is an arsenal of weapons; if you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or no they are loaded you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time. "Poppycock" means "soft shit" - from the Dutch, I need scarcely remind you, pappe kak.

Stephen Fry

#4. Dale's family is like that. Let the Law come within twenty yards of them, and every male over the age of six
uncles, brother, father, cousins
starts lying his fool head off. Dale says it's genetic. Miss Lana says that's poppycock.

Sheila Turnage

#5. They say this is global warming: I say this is poppycock.

David Bellamy

#6. You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.

John Kricfalusi

#7. The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

Sam Ervin

#8. Did you just say Ragnarok is poppycock?

Kevin Hearne

#9. I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it's something they must do, the same way they must eat their greens and must pass their exams in school. Poppycock! Read or don't read - that's your call.

Darren Shan

#10. The benefits and $174,000 per year salary that we get, we earn. It's not elaborate, it's just a bunch of poppycock that a lot of people have spread around trying to get us to hate our own government and our government representatives.

Hank Johnson

#11. The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy.

Ann Coulter

#12. Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock ... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

Don DeLillo

#13. To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock.

Margaret Thatcher

#14. A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.

Jack Dempsey

#15. There are no words for this. Like the flesh, like a prison cell, so, too, are words confining, narrow, chafing, stupid things incapable of expressing one particle of what I felt, what I feel when I see my beloved's face, when he takes me in his arms.

Julie Berry

#16. I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.

Stan Lee

#17. From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#18. Learning voyage, the greatest adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita