The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I’ve encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE – and a maid to press it for me.
BOB HOPEAll British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It’s in the lease.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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I’ve always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It’s an island and the audience can’t run very far.
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It’s amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn’t sell theirs threw them away.
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It’s a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he’s dead.
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Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
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The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.
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I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you’re turning the pages.
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There’s a very apt saying in show business: “If you don’t go over budget in Paris, you’re either very rich or very sick. “
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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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I love to go to Washington – if only to be near my money.
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Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday … He would say, ‘Keep it sweet and short and don’t try to be funny.’
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For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green
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The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear’s huge jaws. I wouldn’t even try that with my agent.
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If my golf game was a prize fight, they’d stop it.
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Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells ‘Fore!’ the guy he’s hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
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I see the Beatles have arrived from England. They were 40 pounds overweight – and that was just their hair.
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