George Ade
George Ade (9 February 1866 – 16 May 1944) was an American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright.
Quotes
[edit]- Moral: It all depends.
- "The Fable of the Parents Who Tinkered with the Offspring", Fables in Slang (1899) [1]
- Moral: In uplifting, get underneath.
- "The Fable of the Good Fairy with the Lorgnette, and why She Got it Good", Fables in Slang (1899)
- Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.
- "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.
- "The Fable of the General Manager of the Love Affair Who Demanded a Furlough", Forty Modern Fables (1901) [2]
- A Piker always has his entire Stock of Goods in the Show Window.
- "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.- 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.
- True Bills (1904) [3]
- Moral: When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.
- "The Through Train", Knocking the Neighbors (1912) [4]
- "Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.
- Bang! Bang! (1928)
- Variant: "Whom are you?" he said, for he had been to night school.
- In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment.
- In Cosmopolitan Magazine (February 1928)
- She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
- Fables
- The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.
- Fables
