Quotes of: Straight-man Keyword

The bachelor is a peacock, the fiancT is a lion and the married man a mule.

Spanish

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Spanish

The north wind has no corn and a poor man no friend.

Traditional

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

Cold Days

...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.

The Cave

The one thing you should never do to a woman, whether you make love to her or fuck her, is apologise straight after.

Cry Of The Wolf

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

Daughter of the Forest

I'm so ready you could drive a truck straight up my ass and I would bend over and push back until it was in to the rear bumper.

Devlin and Garrick

Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.

The Evil We Love

Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.

The Good Book Club

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Categories No. 1 and No. 2: Rolled-up trips and three cards to a low straight flush.

High-Low-Split Poker, Seven-Card Stud and Omaha Eight-or-better for Advan

Categories No. 4 and No. 5: Three small cards to a straight and two small cards with an ace.

High-Low-Split Poker, Seven-Card Stud and Omaha Eight-or-better for Advan

She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight into the old well. She didn’t even scream.

Hagridden

It was a major and deeply embarrassing teenage revelation. It must be how straight teenage boys feel when they realize those boobs they like have heads attached to them.

Bossypants

And death doesn't wait for you when your rested and ready. It sneaks up on you when your exhausted and hungry and cold and so scared you can't even see straight

Betrayals

I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.

Bill Bryson

I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.

P. J. Harvey