Quotes About Wordplay

They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.

Father liked word games. He was fourteen times world Scrabble champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.

Yet I understood the poetry of such mind games one day when, attempting to ask for my glasses (lunettes), I was asked what I wanted to do with the moon (lune).

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

spoon, jar, jar jar spoon

Bob's Nobs.

He that would make a pun would pick a pocket.

Puns are little plays on words that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water.

I wouldn't do that, Silk advised. Thinking about it isn't going to help, and it's only going to make you nervous. Nervouser, Garion corrected. I'm already nervous. Is there such a word as 'nervouser'? Silk asked Belgarath curiously. There is now, Belgarath replied. Garion just invented it. I wish I could invent a word, Silk said admiringly to Garion.

Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.

Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*

Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you? MERCUTIO: The slip, sir, the slip; can you not conceive?

How every fool can play upon the word! I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.

The plural of spouse is spice.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

Listeria, wisteria. Ha. Funny words. She

I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.

I like that word," Pandora mused. "Strumpet. It sounds like a saucy musical instrument." "It

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.

Rectory always sounded to me like a place where you would find a proctologist.

Brian, there's a message in my alphabet soup. It says oooooooo. Peter, those are cheerios.

Makarska and Madamaska.

why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset?