Quotes of Porter - somelinesforyou

“ Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out. ”

- Adrienne Gusoff

“ Oh, Mister Porter, what shall I do? I wanted to go to Birmingham, but they've carried me on to Crewe. ”

- Marie Lloyd

“ Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. ”

- James Patrick Donleavy

“ I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano. ”

- Kevin Kline

“ Gratitude is the doorman's payment. ”

- Unknown

“ Gratitude is the doorman's payment. ”

- Unknown

“ In dog beers, I've only had one. ”

- Unknown

“ The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour… ”

- Adam Smith

“ It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions. ”

- Robert Collier
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