guy quotes

He was an average guy who could carry a tune.

- Bing originally Harry Lillis Crosby Crosby
Suggesting his own epitaph. Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own; And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy, And who'doesn't think she dances, but would rather like to try'; And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist I don't think she'd be missedI'm sure she'd not be missed!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Ko-Ko's song, The Mikado, act1.

You're not a nice guy if you have a gun, even if you are a nice guy.

- Edward I(rving) Koch
  In Time, 3 Mar.

an optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

- Don(ald Robert Perry) Marquis
  archy and mehitabel,'certain maxims of archy'.

'You are snatching a hard guy when you snatch Bookie Bob. Avery hard guy, indeed. In fact,' I say,'I hear the softest thing about him is his front teeth.'

- (Alfred) Damon Runyon
  Blue Plate Special,'Snatching of Bookie Bob'.

He looked like the kind of guy that wouldn't talk to you much unless he wanted something off you. He had a lousy personality.

-J(erome) D(avid) Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.11.

The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don't like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they'll say he's conceited. Even smart girls do it.

-J(erome) D(avid) Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.18.

Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing that Jesus really would've liked would be the guy that plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.

-J(erome) D(avid) Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.18.

Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea, The orange flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea.

- Sir Walter Scott
  Quentin Durward, ch.4.

Well, maybe like Casy says, a fellowain't got a soul of his own, but on'ya piece of a big onean then† Then it don'matter. Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be everywherewherever you look.Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.Wherever they's a cop beatin'up aguy,I'll bethere.If Casyknowed, why,I'll be inthewayguysyell whenthey'remad an'I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an'they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they buildwhy, I'll be there. See?

-John Ernest Steinbeck
  The Grapes ofWrath, ch.28.