
“Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.”
Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.”
Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”
"Life, Art and America", in The Seven Arts (February 1917)
“If you don't want a man dead, don't bludgeon him over the head repeatedly.”
Source: Uprooted
“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”
Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 9; a remark by Boris
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
Song 20: "Against Idleness and Mischief". Parodied by Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
“That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.”
Decline and Fall (1928)
“Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.”
Source: White Oleander