Double Meaning Quotes

• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

  Mae West

  Coffee, Cups, Euthanasia

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• Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 26, 2014

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• The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

  Ronnie Barker

  Inspirational, Funny, Mean Girls

  Sauce (1977) "Daddie's Sauce"

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  Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Memorable, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 4

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• Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.

  Stanley Spencer

  Everyday, Together, Ordinary

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• See yourself as you really are. Listen to what none of your leaders and representatives dares tell you: You are a "little, common man." Understand the double meaning of these words: "little" and "common." Don't run. Have the courage to look at yourself!

  Wilhelm Reich

  Running, Men, Leader

  "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.

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• Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.

  David Levithan

  Two, Giving, Trying

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.192, Macmillan

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• Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Meaning Of Life, Razors, Sides

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• I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.

  Jay-Z

  Easter, Eggs, Use

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• I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control; and as the limits of allowing other people's control over one's - consciousness - which I kind of thought was a double meaning that was appropriate.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Self, Two, People

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2009.

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• I'm a sucker for double meanings in titles.

  Nick Blaemire

  Titles, Sucker

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• There's a double meaning in the film The Conquest. First, the conquest of power at the UMP party and how Sarkozy had to fight his colleagues inside the party so that it was him running for President. He wins the political conquest, but he loses the feminine conquest in that his wife leaves him. It's hard for a President to be single - that's never happened.

  Xavier Durringer

  Running, Party, Fighting

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Certain audiences get the double meaning and some of the references and ironies, but there's definitely been shows where I feel like I'm not doing it well enough for it to come across as anything other than "oh, she's hot and she's dancing."

  Emily Haines

  Dancing, Hot, Irony

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• It has a double meaning - the superabundance also means the space around, the incomparable massiveness of things, and how there's not much of a discrepancy between the tiniest microbe and the supercluster: the small and the infinite are inseparable.

  Daniel O'Sullivan

  Mean, Discrepancies Between, Space

  "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

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• Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean.

  Peter C Bunnell

  Mean, Opposites, Hints

  Peter C. Bunnell (2006). “Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography”, Aperture

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• Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Knives, May

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.85, Penguin

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• Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado)

  William Shakespeare

  Dinner, Benedick

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Much ado about nothing with essential questions”, p.85, Lulu.com

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• Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time.

  Hilary Mantel

  Book, Writing, People

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• A part of my appreciation for the good which moments bring has come from awareness and recognition. But it has also come from a correspnding sadness which arises from their passing. When something that can never quite be reenacted comes to an end (and all moments are that way), I feel a pensiveness within. This pensiveness gives my life a quality that might be best described as bittersweet. And those moments take on double meaning and richness - because they are here now - and because they will not always be.

  Bob Benson

  Appreciation, Sadness, Giving

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• It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.

  Jan Morris

  Curves, Lines, Facts

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• Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Soul, Darkness

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7026, Delphi Classics

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• Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

  Communication, Names, Voice

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1988). “Life Lines: Quotations from the Work of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy”, p.25, Argo Books

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