Quotes About Wordplay

We were standing near the Lollipop Forest when we realized that Santa is an anagram of Satan... Overhearing the customers we would substitute the Satan for the world Santa.

y la palabra Ama, anagrama donde el poder y el amor se igualan.

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

The word "mistress" sounds like a cross between mistake and mattress. "We've

The word "mistress" sounds like a cross between mistake and mattress.

Hey," he said. "Stressed is desserts spelled backward.

A big assumption. And when you assume, you make an ass out of you and umption.

The word he used was coup, and I'm not speaking French just to arouse you.

As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

But the text recorded it as 'Hell, you're in my hand'—an H instead of a W." Irene grimaced. "You mean everyone who sees that text will believe my husband swore at his sword?" "I'm afraid so," Chem said apologetically.

The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.

I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don't get it don't know about it.

Surely it's no coincidence that the word listen is an anagram of the word silent.

Damn it all! What rhymes with rhythm?

I'm thinking of killing everyone whose name is a palindrome

poo parlor division" instead of "loo.

You know what the duck said when their lover left them? "Quack!" I guess you can say that the duck quacked.

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

As Tolkien points out, the name is "a pleasantly ingenious pun," referring to those who "dabble in ink." It also suggests people "with vague or half-formed intimations and ideas.

What do you call a snake who works for the government? A civil serpent!

But in the case of the novel by Perec, who has no fewer than four e's in his own name, the deliberate elimination of the e was perhaps not just a conceptual antic but had an emotional source and an emotional effect.

A gaggle of giggles?" Meyer said, trying that one on me. My turn. "How about a prance of pussycats?" "Not bad at all. Hmmm. A scramble of scrumptious?

You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?

I always wanted to open a delicatessen in Jerusalem and call it 'Cheeses of Nazareth'.