Pleonasm / Redundant Quotations

They are all pleonastic, containing superfluous, unnecessary words.

• "And that's a self-portrait of himself, by himself."
  Richard Madeley
   
• "Now we go into lap 53, the penultimate last lap but one."
  Murray Walker
   
• "It looks like being a busy weekend on the ferries, particularly Saturday and Sunday."
  Peter Powell
   
• "It was a sudden and unexpected surprise."
  Old Bailey Correspondent for the BBC
   
• "I never make predictions, especially about the future."
  Samuel Goldwyn
   
• "It's deja vu all over again."
  Yogi Berra
   
• "Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."
  Samuel Goldwyn
   
• "Sometimes you can observe a lot just by watching."
  Yogi Berra
   
• "If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure."
  Former Vice-President Dan Quayle
   
• "They've written their own number – it's an original number and it's written by themselves."
  Jenny Lee-Wright
   
• "So the VAT [Tax] increase on a secondhand car is just another added addition."
  Adrian Love
   
• "Just look at that [ice skating result]. Nine 'six' marks, every one of them a 'six'."
  Alan Weeks
   
• "With a couple of minutes to go he had scored two goals in a two-minute period."
  Alan Perry
   
• "The answer's an affirmative 'yes'."
  Nigel Mansell
   
• "I am speaking from a deserted and virtually empty Crucible Theatre."
  David Vine
   
• "With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go."
  Murray Walker
   
• "I don't normally do requests, unless I'm asked to."
  Richard Whiteley
   
• "And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria."
  David Dimbleby
   
• "The robbery was committed by a pair of identical twins. Both are said to be aged about 20."
  Paul Hollingsworth
   
• "When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results."
  Calvin Coolidge
   
• "Trapped, like a trap in a trap."
  Dorothy Parker
   
• "Smoking can kill you, and if you've been killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
  Brooke Shields
   
• "Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable."
  Tom Landry
   

More about Redundancy, Pleonasm, and Tautology

• Main Redundancies Page.
• Pleonasms from Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations.
• Phrases and expressions that are pleonasms.
• Words and phrases with etymological redundancy.
• Opposite of pleonasms: Oxymorons / Oxymora.

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