“We’ll never survive!”
“Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”
William Goldman book The Princess Bride
Source: The Princess Bride
“I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious."
"Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense."
"Nobody ever does.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
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Murray Leinster (1896–1975) Novelist, short story writer
Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 22).
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) Nigerian writer
Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 56e
“Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.”
Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Letter to Louis Untermeyer (8 July 1915)
1910s
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist
Source: The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb
“To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.”
Gelett Burgess (1866–1951) artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist
From the essay The Sense of Humor http://books.google.com/books?id=y-MhAAAAMAAJ&q="To+appreciate+nonsense+requires+a+serious+interest+in+life"&pg=PA64#v=onepage first published in The Romance of the Commonplace (1902).
“I’m dead serious about being nonsensical.”
Edward Ruscha (1937) American artist and photographer
Edward Ruscha in: " Me, you, us: Anthony d'Offay and others on ARTIST ROOMS http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/me-you-us," at tate.org.uk. 1 May 2009