Woody Allen quotes
“Sex alleviates tension. Marriage causes it.”
“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
“Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing ‘Embraceable You’ in spats.”
“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded, dead.”
“Intellectuals are like the Mafia, they only kill their own.”
“His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.”
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
“I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.”
- From the movie: Deconstructing Harry
“He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.”
“How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?”
“It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.”
“Why are our days numbered and not say lettered?”
- From the movie: Love and Death
“If it turns out that there IS a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.”
- From the movie: Love and Death
“There's been a mistake! I know, I made it!”
- From the movie: Love and Death
“The question is: have I learned anything about life? Only that... only that human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun. ”
“When it comes to sex, there are some mysteries that should remain unexplored. And with my luck, they always will be.”
“I'm not getting shot out of that thing. What if he's masturbating? I'm liable to end up on the ceiling.”
“- Helen Lacey: Oh, Victor, please don't do anything dangerous!
- Victor Shakapopulis: Don't worry. I know how to handle tits.”
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