William Archibald Spooner Quotes

• The Lord is a shoving leopard.

  William Archibald Spooner

  Leopards, Lord

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• I remember your name perfectly, but I just can't think of your face.

  William Archibald Spooner

  Thinking, Names, Luck

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• Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.

  William Archibald Spooner

  Liars, Lying, Fighting

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• Tell me, was it you or your brother who was killed in the war?

  William Archibald Spooner

  Funny, Brother, War

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• In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul.

  William Archibald Spooner

  Said, Sermons

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• The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer

  William Archibald Spooner

  Weight, Rage, Employers

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• Poor soul - very sad; her late husband, you know, a very sad death - eaten by missionaries - poor soul.

  William Archibald Spooner

  Funny, Husband, Humor

  Quoted in William Hayter, Spooner: A Biography (1977)

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