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Famous Bob Hope Quotes

“You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”

Bob Hope

“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”

Bob Hope

“I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.”

Bob Hope

“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.”

Bob Hope

“When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.”

Bob Hope

“When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.”

Bob Hope

Bob Hope Quotes

“People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.”

Bob Hope

People , Kiss

“I know I'm in England because this morning, my stomach got up two hours before I did and had a cup of tea! I've had so much tea, I slosh when I walk! You have to drink tea - I've tasted the coffee!”

Bob Hope

During a radio broadcast recorded in the UK. (During a broadcast in the Soviet Union, Bob re-used the first section, replacing 'England' with 'Russia' and 'cup of tea' with 'Bowl of Borscht')
Audio recording of radio broadcast.

Coffee , Drink , Tea

“In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.”

Bob Hope

Obituary, Television Week, 4 August 2003 http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-3030403/Guest-Commentary-Hope-Everlasting-Press.html
About

Confidence , Time

“You mean like Democrats?”

Bob Hope

In the film The Ghost Breakers (1940), in reference to another character's description of zombies: "you see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring."
[Misattributed: Actor not credited as writer.]
Misattributed

“I was on the way to my hotel, and I passed a hotel going in the opposite direction.”

Bob Hope

He arrived in Saigon on the day that Vietcong agents blew up an American officers' billet.
New York Times obituary, July 28, 2003 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/obituaries/28CND-HOPE.html?pagewanted=1

Way

“Thanks to our brave allies: you gallant Russian bear, you British everywhere.”

Bob Hope

Introduction to his World War II performances.
Obituary, The Economist, August 2, 2003 http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-106195810.html