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George Ade
12 quotes
“: It all depends.”
George Ade (1866–1944) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fable of the Parents Who Tinkered with the Offspring", Fables in Slang (1899)
“: In uplifting, get underneath.”
George Ade (1866–1944) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fable of the Good Fairy with the Lorgnette, and why She Got it Good", Fables in Slang (1899)
“: Don't try to Account for Anything.”
George Ade (1866–1944) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fable of the Caddy who Hurt His Head While Thinking", Fables in Slang (1899)
“Moral: If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.”
George Ade (1866–1944) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fable of the General Manager of the Love Affair Who Demanded a Furlough", Forty Modern Fables (1901)
“A Piker always has his entire Stock of Goods in the Show Window.”
George Ade (1866–1944) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fable of the Wise Piker Who Had the Kind of Talk That Went", Forty Modern Fables (1901)
“R-E-M-O-R-S-E! Those dry Martinis did the work for me; Last night at twelve I felt immense, To-day I feel like thirty cents. My eyes are bleared, my coppers hot, I’ll try to eat, but I cannot. It is no time for mirth and laughter, The cold, gray dawn of the morning after.”
George Ade (1866–1944) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sultan of Sulu (1903) act 2, p. 63; Ki-Ram loq.
“Early to Bed and Early to Rise is a Bad Rule for any one who wishes to become acquainted with our most Prominent and Influential People.”
George Ade (1866–1944) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: True Bills (1904)
“Moral: When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.”
George Ade (1866–1944) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Through Train", Knocking the Neighbors (1912)
“Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.”
George Ade (1866–1944) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bang! Bang! (1928)
“In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment.”
George Ade (1866–1944) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Cosmopolitan Magazine (February 1928)
“She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.”
George Ade (1866–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.”
George Ade (1866–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source