Arthur

Arthur

Arthur is a common masculine given name. Its etymology is disputed, but its popularity derives from its being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur.

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Famous quotes containing the word arthur:

    “You bet I’m shy. I’m a shyster lawyer!”
    —S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Arthur Sheekman, Will Johnstone, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Monkey Business, responding to Lucille Briggs’s (Thelma Todd)

    “So let man consider of what he was created;
    he was created of gushing water
    issuing between the loins and the breast-bones.”
    —Qur’An. The Night-Star, 86:5-7, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)

    “I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.”
    —Eric Taylor, Leroux, and Arthur Lubin. Raoul Daubert (Edgar Barrier)