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Reception Quotes

I love pizza so much, I would marry pizza, but it would just be an elaborate ploy to eat her whole family at the reception.

Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.

William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.240

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

1763 Remark, 20 Jul. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

Our thinking is a pious reception.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.

"Pickup artist Neil Strauss". Interview with Clarisse Thorn, www.timeout.com. March 23, 2011.

If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.

Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6454, Delphi Classics