Soap Quotes

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis

Truth, End, Thinking

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain

Education, Long, Run

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
Erma Bombeck

Mother, After, Wrong

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
Judy Garland

Try, Worst, Role

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good, Health, Alone

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
Lillie Langtry

Life, Work, Happy

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler

Best, Sense, Water

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.
Jennifer Aniston

Dad, Actor, Skating

Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.
Camille Paglia

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.
Camille Paglia

Used, Quality, Importance

When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up.
Scott Stapp

Friendly, Together, Find

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.
Margaret Walker

Strong, Words, Memories

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
Don Rickles

Trying, Married, State

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.
Joan Collins

Work, Respect, Actor

What is elegance? Soap and water!
Cecil Beaton

Water, Elegance

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.
Michael Zaslow

Again, Getting, Involved

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
Fareed Zakaria

Fact, Nuclear, Arsenal

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.
Jennifer Garner

Baseball, Enough, Games

I wash my face every night with Ivory soap, and I don't wear much makeup.
Brandy Norwood

Night, Face, Makeup

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.
Howard Hughes

Time, Times, Individual

In the case of 'The Housewives,' I call the 'Housewives' sociology of the rich. I think it's just fun to watch. It's guilt-free gossiping that you can have. It's like the modern-day soap opera, in my mind.
Andy Cohen

Fun, Mind, Rich

'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.
Rob Sheffield

Revenge, Style, Camp

'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end.
Rob Sheffield

Art, End, American

I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.
Nathan Fillion

Love, Society, Down

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
Dan Stevens

Word, Actually, Seems

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.
Dan Stevens

Love, Good, Hate

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.
Joyce Maynard

Writer, Realistic, Opera

Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.
Daniel Goleman

Others, Question, Earth

My father raised us like... we were not allowed to see people in any sort of colors, but also we were not allowed to call people fat. If ever we were to say, 'Oh that fat person, or this person,' he would make us put a bar of soap in our mouth and count to 10. We weren't allowed to look at people like that.
Khloe Kardashian

Father, Person, Put

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
Karl Malone

Another, Star, Company

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