Quotes About Facetious

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

I just have a deadpan sense of humor, I guess.

The shrill note of a bell made them both jump. "That's the front door," said Giles. "Enter - a murderer," he added facetiously.

A facetious if logical question comes into George's mind, from where he cannot tell, unless as a reaction to all this unwonted intensity. If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?

The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

What's up with your face? I mean you're an ugly bloke, but today you're top-drawer hideous.

MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a way out for your client. Any private individual with a record of such incessant murder and robbery would be glad to cop an insanity plea. Do you insist that your client was in full possession of its reason at Wounded Knee? At Hiroshima? At Dresden?' JUSTICE IMMHOTEP: 'You become facetious, Mr. Celine.' MR. CELINE: 'I have never been more serious.

How Horrid has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.

The two girls disappeared into the stern cabin once more. Will watched them go, then asked Halt, 'Anything you'd like me to do? Grow a beard? Learn to walk like a rooster?' 'If you could stop asking facetious questions, that'd be a start,' Halt told him. 'But it's probably a little late in life for you to do that.

Anything you'd like me to do? Grow a beard? Learn to walk like a rooster?" "If you could stop asking facetious questions, that'd be a start," Halt told him. "But it's probably a little late in life for you to do that.

The street called Straight is straighter than a corkscrew, but not as straight as a rainbow. St. Luke is careful not to commit himself; he does not say it is the street which is straight, but the "street which is called Straight." It is a fine piece of irony; it is the only facetious remark in the Bible, I believe.

Zhoi nodded. 'Puny Yahweh.' Mel Tash remembered Charlie Marlowe's facetious conversation – on Blink Day itself? She'd used those words then. And she'd repeated the phrase in many conversations and broadcasts since. But Yamanaka said now, 'It would help us all greatly if the Astronomer Royal did not utter those words publicly again. Not on my watch anyhow. Nothing good ever came from provocation . . . I leave that with you.

He surveyed his audience with that look of sublime solemnity only a drunk can muster.

I tend to do stuff that is in some way tongue in cheek or humorous or has a kind of wry side to it.

I have some sarcastic sides of me.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

his facetious grace in writing," and much else.

I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.

I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, really.

When Dickens designed false bookcases and books to disguise the door from the drawing room to his study, he invented a seven-volume series facetiously called "The Wisdom of Our Ancestors." In addition to volumes called Superstition, The Block, Ignorance, The Rack, Disease and The Stake, was one simply titled Dirt.

grinning from asshole to eyebrow.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

Being a facetious person I got no credit for any depth of feeling.

No, darling, I'm fine, you just relax." He knew she was being facetious but he also knew that if he wanted to be able to carry on lying there reading a book, he should not acknowledge this.