Quotation Curator Gifts

John Bartlett

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

'Hurry, wipe it off before Dad comes home!'

Historical memory is on life support.

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

"Je suis Descartes, donc, je pense."

'It's a Joan Biro.'

"To paraprase Nietzsche, there is no pleasure with out pain au chocolat."

"Oh, this old thing?"

"I'm just a girl, standing in front of a buoy..."

''Science moves but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.' Tennyson.'

"Say hello to my little friend."

Well, you know these child prodigies - they can be very demanding about how their work is displayed.

Misunderstood artist

Girl to boy, 'Mom says don't play it again, Sam.'

Euripides: 'If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.'

'I imagine you'll be asking for a full refund.'

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

Ask not for whom happy hour ends. It ends for thee.

Convenience.

Nevermore. You don't have to use "air quoths" every time.

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

"I got those famous last words you wanted"

The Rise of Modern Art

Three street vendors sit side by side selling their art; two of the vendors are selling normal paintings while the third is a Neanderthal selling cave paintings.

Man selling 'pearls of wisdom'.

Buy one beer, get one free. If I may paraphrase a famous quote, "Beer is proof that God has mixed feelings about us and wants us to be hungover."

Shakespeare Street

Mortally Wounded at the Battle of Quebec, General James Wolfe Forgets His Last Words

Sold! For £42,000 to the... No wait - it's the wrong way round!

"...Accept finite disappointment, but NEVER LOSE INFINITE HOPE."

''Science moves but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point'. Tennyson.'

'He knows everything about art. But he doesn't know what he likes.'

Curators at the Louvre Museum would regret approving the installation of a work on a wall behind the Mona Lisa.

"Don't you find her work just so wonderfully liberating!"