Double Entendre Quotes

• I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don't get it don't know about it.

  Betty White

  People, Enjoy, Knows

  "Betty White Still A Hit, With Ever-Younger Fans". "Weekend Edition" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. May 8, 2011.

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• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Humorous

  "MIT Students Develop A Wearable That Detects Emotions In Speech" by Logan Strain, wearablezone.com. February 09, 2017.

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  Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  I'm No Angel (motion picture) (1933). Nigel Rees, in his Quote ... Unquote Newsletter, has found this joke appearing earlier in the cartoon "Pop" in 1921: "woman: 'You say what you like, Pop! Marriage is a jolly good institution!' POP: 'Yes! But who wants to live in an institution?"

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• This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.

  Ted Walsh

  Sports, Mother, Horse

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• I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

  Mae West

  Funny, Witty, Women

  In Joseph Weintraub Peel Me a Grape (1975) p. 47

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• Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.

  Harry Carpenter

  Nice, Kissing, Oxford

  "Oxford cut early dash to set Light Blues up for the chop", www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2006.

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• Wolves eat coyotes," Gordon said[...] If he weren't an old man, I had some rude things I could have said to that. "Yes," observed Adam blandly. "I do." Yep. That was the one that came to mind. And he didn't even blush when he said it. Maybe Gordon would miss the double entendre. But he grinned cheerfully at Adam.

  Patricia Briggs

  Men, Rude, Missing

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• I don't just like sexual double entendres I love them, I stroke them, I milk them, I spank them when they're naughty.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Humor, Naughty

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• The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all songs about food are double entendres for sex... Well, maybe all songs about food can be double entendres, but in many periods of Cuban history, for many people, food has been harder to get, and the subject of more fantasies, than sex.

  Ned Sublette

  Song, Sex, Thinking

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• I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

  Julian Casablancas

  Song, Simple, Focus

  "Strokes frontman: 'I was hung over for two years'". Interview with Quinn Brown, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2009.

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• I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

  Nigella Lawson

  People

  "You Ask The Questions". The Independent, September 12, 2002.

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