It was a typically British birth… I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward… I came out in sympathy.
BOB HOPEI only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
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Bing Crosby and I weren’t the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other.
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England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.
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If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
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I’ve got to watch myself these days. It’s too exciting watching anyone else.
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The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don’t know which end to talk to.
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Don’t tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.
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If my golf game was a prize fight, they’d stop it.
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I’ve never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn’t know how really great he is.
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People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
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Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend’s house during a power failure.
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Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don’t worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.
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I don’t do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.
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My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
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