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  • Now what?

    -William Saroyan
      Last words.

  • The Red Cow was very respectable, shealways behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What. To her a thing was either black or whitethere was no question of it being grey or perhaps pink. People were good or they were badthere was nothing in between. Dandelions were either sweet or sourthere were never any moderately nice ones.

    - P(amela) L(yndon) Travers
      Mary Poppins, ch.5.

  • I've been in Who's Who and I know what's what, but it's the first time I ever made the dictionary.

    - Mae West
    Reputedly said on learning that a life jacket was to be named after her.

  • 'What ho!' I said. 'What ho!'said Motty. 'What ho! What ho!' 'What ho! What ho! What ho!' After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

    -Plum
      My ManJeeves,'Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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