I got told to bleach my skin, and that was something I refused to do, because it just is absurd to me that somebody could even remotely say to someone ‘bleach your skin so you could look whiter’. – Alexandra Burke
What I know is I have only gotten better with age. I think I’m the sexiest I’ve ever been, and I’m almost 50. And I think of the other women who are in this age bracket and beyond, and I think, ‘why was there ever a message of counting us out?’ That seems absurd. – Tracee Ellis Ross
I dispel the absurd caricature of Britain as a nation bent on the slash and burn of workers rights and environmental protection as if we are saved from Dickensian squalor only by enlightened EU regulation, as if it was only thanks to Brussels, that were not preparing to send children back up chimneys. In one field after another Britain is far ahead. – Boris Johnson Feb 3, 2020 speech on Brexit.
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. – Barbara Pym
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. – Baruch Spinoza
I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.’ I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd. – Peter Dinklage
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs. – P. T. Barnum
The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines. – Stelios Haji-Ioannou