Bob Hope

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Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.
- Bob Hope
Collection: War
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She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Kings
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Today's ballroom dances like the swim, the frug, the chicken and the monkey are really nervous disorders set to music.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Swim
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Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Book
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Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Men
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England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Marine
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At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Thinking
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Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Running
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My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Blood
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To give you an idea of how fast we travelled - we left with two rabbits and when we arrived we still had only two.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Ideas
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My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off!
- Bob Hope
Collection: Golf
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Personally, I never drink on Oscar nights, as it interferes with my suffering.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Drinking
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There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome - the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Golf
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I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Golf
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Congratulations to whoever is finally booking music we love. It's going to get us out of the house after dark!
- Bob Hope
Collection: Congratulations
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Foursomes have left the first tee there and have never been seen again. They just find their shoelaces and bags.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Golf
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For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green
- Bob Hope
Collection: Oscars
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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.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Home
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We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Spring
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A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Religious
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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.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defence Program to prepare our boys for anything.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Boys
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Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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The old water heater in my dressing room was working, but it was kind of tired. It gave off about as much warmth as an agent's handshake.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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I felt I wasn't getting anywhere in England.
- Bob Hope
Collection: One Line
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If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Golf
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Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life. She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Baseball
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Lots of travel, away from home.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Home
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Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it's also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Beautiful
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Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes. The only troulbe is that when I win, I always have to engage and attorney before I can draw the money.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Golf
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The home videos aren't as good, but they are seeming to get better.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Home
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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Golf
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Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Golf
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Witty
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Isn’t it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?
- Bob Hope
Collection: Fun