flop quotes

  • If you must go flopping yourself down, flop in favour of your husband and child, and not in opposition to'em.

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
      Jerry Cruncher.  A  Tale of  Two Cities, bk.2, ch.1.

  • No woman has to prove herself a woman in the grim way a man has to prove himself a man. He must perform, or the show does not go on. Social convention is irrelevant. A flop is a flop.

    - Heinz R(udolf) Pagels
      Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, ch.1,'Sex andViolence, or Nature and Art'.

  •    I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.

    - Cole Porter
      'You're theTop', from the show Anything Goes.

  • Yes, always keep the Classics at hand to prevent flop.

    - (Adeline) Virginia ne  e Stephen Woolf
      Diary entry, 23 Jun.

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