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Sometimes used as a discreet euphemism for a house-of-prostitution . That place off Hole Street . See brothel for synonyms.
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Quotes Containing place:
Gay graffiti : ''The closet is an awful place to die .''
Gay graffiti : ''The closet is an awful place to die .''
Humorist James Thurber (1894-1961) rephrasing the clich: a woman''s place is in the home/kitchen: ''A woman''s place is in the wrong.'' Of course, as Lady Lou (Mae West) says in She Done Him Wrong (1933): ''When women go wrong, men go right after them.'' Mort Sahl also paraphrased the clich: ''A woman''s place is in the stove.'' Warrick (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) in Valley of the Sun (1942): ''The way to a woman''s heart is to get her out of the kitchen .''
Humorist James Thurber (1894-1961) rephrasing the clich: a woman''s place is in the home/kitchen: ''A woman''s place is in the wrong.'' Of course, as Lady Lou (Mae West) says in She Done Him Wrong (1933): ''When women go wrong, men go right after them.'' Mort Sahl also paraphrased the clich: ''A woman''s place is in the stove.'' Warrick (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) in Valley of the Sun (1942): ''The way to a woman''s heart is to get her out of the kitchen .''
Humorist James Thurber (1894-1961) rephrasing the clich: a woman''s place is in the home/kitchen: ''A woman''s place is in the wrong.'' Of course, as Lady Lou (Mae West) says in She Done Him Wrong (1933): ''When women go wrong, men go right after them.'' Mort Sahl also paraphrased the clich: ''A woman''s place is in the stove.'' Warrick (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) in Valley of the Sun (1942): ''The way to a woman''s heart is to get her out of the kitchen .''
In Action Jackson (1988): ''They oughta call your place the House of Whacks.''
In Action Jackson (1988): ''They oughta call your place the House of Whacks.''
W.B. Yeats: ''Love has pitched her mansion in the place of excrement.''
Dick Harper (George Segal) and Jane (Jane Fonda) in Fun with Dick and Jane (1977): - Dick: ''Would you be embarassed if I kissed you in a public place?'' - Jane: ''I''d be embarassed if you kissed me in a private place with all these people around.''
Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert) and Marc Anthony (Henry Wilcoxon) in Cleopatra (1934): - Cleopatra: 'What's this? Anthony hates women too?' - Marc Anthoiny: 'Out of their place I do . They've no place amongst men. They can't think and they can't fight. They're just playthings for us.'
Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert) and Marc Anthony (Henry Wilcoxon) in Cleopatra (1934): - Cleopatra: ''What''s this? Anthony hates women too?'' - Marc Anthoiny: ''Out of their place I do . They''ve no place amongst men. They can''t think and they can''t fight. They''re just playthings for us.''
Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert) and Marc Anthony (Henry Wilcoxon) in Cleopatra (1934): - Cleopatra: 'What's this? Anthony hates women too?' - Marc Anthoiny: 'Out of their place I do . They've no place amongst men. They can't think and they can't fight. They're just playthings for us.'
Dick Harper (George Segal) and Jane (Jane Fonda) in Fun with Dick and Jane (1977): - Dick: ''Would you be embarassed if I kissed you in a public place?'' - Jane: ''I''d be embarassed if you kissed me in a private place with all these people around.''
Pete Seltzer (Walter Matthau) to Tillie Schlaine (Carol Burnett) in Pete ''n'' Tillie (1972): ''How about coming up to my place for a spot of heavy breathing?''
Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal) in City Slickers (1991): 'Women need a reason to have-sex . Men just need a place .'
Noah Cross (John Huston) in Chinatown (1974): ''Most people don''t ever have to face the fact that, in the right place , at the right time, they are capable of anything.''
Humorously defined by Frederic Mullally in The Penthouse Sexicon (1968) as: 'The only place a man must come-out of before he can go into.'
Dr. Matthew Swain (Lloyd Nolan) about Peyton Place (1957): ''We''re all prisoners of each other''s gossip , killed by each other''s whispers.''
Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal) in City Slickers (1991): 'Women need a reason to have-sex . Men just need a place .'
Marlo Manners (Mae West) in Sextette (1978): 'Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between covers. '
'Do you think it will take the place night baseball?' Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) to Nick Ferrante (Cary Grant) in An Affair toRemember (1957)
Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) to the prison guard Guitierrez (George Kennedy) in Lonely are the Brave (1962): ''Take it easy! Temper like that, one of these days you''ll find yourself riding through town with your belly to the sun, your best suit on , and no place to go but hell .''
Ex-hooker V (Melanie Griffith) to the inquisitive young Frank Wheeler (Michael Patrick Carter) who keeps asking about that spot in Milk Money (1994): - V:''There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy.'' - Frank:'' Where?'' - V:''Her heart .''
The Narrator of Last of the Dogmen (1995): ''Wherever they get to, all good stories begin and end in the same place , and that''s the heart of a man or a woman .''
Prymaat Conehead (Jane Curtin) having a chit-chat about Men!! with her neighbor in Coneheads (1993): - Neighbor: 'All men are pigs!' - Prymaat: 'Ah, pigs: an omnivorous, domesticated, cloven hoof vertibrate that defecates the same place it consumes.' - Neighbor: 'Exactly.'
An admirer and Cleo Borden (Mae West) in Goin'' to Town (1935): - Admirer: ''Where have I seen your face before?'' - Cleo Borden: ''Same place you see it now.''
Wayne Carter (Dick Foran) and Flower Belle Lee (Mae West) in My Little Chickadee (1940): - Wayner: 'I don't like to see a girl like you go into Badger's. It's a sordid place full of temptations. ' - Flower Belle: 'I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it .'
Paul Poitier-Kitteridge (Will Smith) to Ouisa Kitteridge (Stockard Channing) in Six Degrees of Separation (1993): ''The imagination . It''s there to sort out your nightmare, to show you the exit from the maze of your nightmare, to transform the nightmare into dreams that become your bedrock. If we do not listen to that voice, it dies. It shrivels. It vanishes. Imagination is not our escape. The imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.''
Kitty Packard (Jean Harlow) and Carlotta Vance (Marie Dressler) in Dinner at Eight (1933): - Kitty: ''I was reading a book the other day. (...) It''s all about civilization or something, a nutty kind of book. Do you know that the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?'' - Carlotta: ''Oh, dear, that''s something you need never worry about.''
Kitty Packard (Jean Harlow) and Carlotta Vance (Marie Dressler) in Dinner at Eight (1933): - Kitty: ''I was reading a book the other day. (...) It''s all about civilization or something, a nutty kind of book. Do you know that the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?'' - Carlotta: ''Oh, dear, that''s something you need never worry about.''
Meg (Mary Kay Place) to Sarah (Glenn Close) on the subject of dating in The Big Chill (1983):'They're either married or gay . And if they're not gay , they've just broken up with the most wonderful woman in the world or they've just broken up with a bitch who looks just like me. They're in transition from a monogamous relationship and they need more space or they're tired of space but they just can't commit or they want to commit but they're afraid to get close. They want to get close, you don't want to get near them.'
Bachelor Elie (Kevin Pollak) in The Opposite Sex. And How to Live With Them (1993): 'A relationship is a fine place to sleep but you wouldn't want to live there.'
Eunice Burns (Madeline Kahn) and her fianc Howard Bannister (Ryan O''Neal) in What''s Up, Doc? (1972): - Eunice: ''I''m not looking for romance , Howard. I''m looking for something more important than that. Something stronger. As the years go by romance fades and something else takes it''s place . Do you know what that is?'' - Howard:''Senility?'' - Eunice: ''Trust!!!''

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