Deuces Quotes

• If this is the last time, let me say it so you never forget. I will always love you, Deuce. No matter where souls go, mine will be looking for you, solnyshko moyo." "No. I want a promise instead. Promise you'll fight like you never have, so when the dying stops, you'll be on your feet looking for me here." "I swear.

  Ann Aguirre

  Love You, Fighting, Feet

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• Luneta and her parents started and whirled around, to see Terence standing just inside Luneta's door. "Deuce it, Terence!" Luneta's father expostulated. "You'll kill someone that way someday! How did you get inside without any of us hearing you?" "I came in the door, of course," Terence replied, stepping forward. He held two swords in scabbards, which he tossed onto Luneta's bed as he approaced. "For anyone else, the hinges would have squeaked," Luneta's father muttered.

  Gerald Morris

  Father, Doors, Two

  Gerald Morris (2008). “The Lioness and Her Knight”, p.256, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is - One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.

  Lenny Bruce

  Christian, Tribes, Action

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• if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Differences, Syntax

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1854). “Vanity Fair, etc”, p.92

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• What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Moon, Differences, Sun

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 2 (1888)

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• Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous
  It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce

  Talib Kweli

  Names, Hip Hop, Fine

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• If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Thinking, Play

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.608, Penguin

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• My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

  Henry Adams

  Play, Questions And Answers, Examination

  Henry Adams (1951). “Selected letters”, New York, Farrar

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• ... Where did you go?” “Down below.” “Ugh,” she said. “I’ve heard they’re little better than animals.” Funny. I thought the same thing about most Topsiders I encountered. Tegan touched my hand in silent sympathy, and I set my jaw. ... I stepped forward and pasted on a false smile. We were in her home, after all. The least I could do was be polite. “I’m Deuce, animal from the underground.

  Ann Aguirre

  Home, Animal, Hands

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• And that was the way The deuce was to pay As it always is, at the close of the day That gave us

  Will Carleton

  Fault Finders, Pay, Way

  Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.108, Applewood Books

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• For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

  Wole Soyinka

  Occupation, Missions

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• It was reported today that U.S. military bases will not show 'Brokeback Mountain.' However, during interrogations, U.S. troops will continue to show 'Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Military, Brokeback Mountain, Troops

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• I'm not sick, Deuce. You don't know your own charm." My charm? I hadn't been aware I had any. It must be the dress, I thought.

  Ann Aguirre

  Sick, Dresses, Charm

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.86, Feiwel & Friends

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• Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Tragedy, Comic

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• You dropped a 500-seat deuce on Times Square.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Squares, Times Square, Seats

  "Anthony Bourdain Roast: Star Gets Bashed By Rachael Ray, Guy Fieri And More At New York Wine & Food Festival (NSFW)" by Carey Polis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

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• When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce take their penetration & acumen. They have robbed us of the bloom.

  Herman Melville

  Dog, Eye, Wish

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• So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor.

  Steve Schirripa

  Doors, Childhood, Next

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• Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

  Charles Dickens

  Opportunity, Energy, Letters

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• Lady Maccon.” “By George, Boots! How the deuce can you possibly tell that there is Lady Maccon?” queried the other top-hated gentleman. “Who else would be standing in the middle of a street on full-moon night with a raging ruddy fire behind her, waving a parasol about?” “Good point, good point.

  Gail Carriger

  Moon, Night, Fire

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• What the deuce is to do now?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.95, Penguin

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• I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried

  Rob Schneider

  Jobs, Writing, Laughing So Hard

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• Perhaps that was the point; life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best. -Deuce, (183)

  Ann Aguirre

  Different, Roles, Growing

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.139, Macmillan

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• I am Nicki Minaj, I mack them dudes up Back coupes up & chunk the deuce up

  Nicki Minaj

  Flirty, Bragging, Mack

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• If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half to death. The strength of that impulse scared me, and I took a step back. Deuce the girl was every bit as vicious as the Huntress, it seemed

  Ann Aguirre

  Girl, Cutting, Hair

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.144, Macmillan

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• One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

  Jack Nicholson

  Summer, School, Kids

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