REBUS puzzles

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Start thinking. I'll make it easy.

First name.



Second name.



But you have to think like this guy.

 
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Start thinking. I'll make it easy.

First name.



Second name.



But you have to think like this guy.

Sylvie Guillem, French ballet dancer



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Guillem/Guillaume being the French equivalent of William
 
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Very witty misanthrope... long gone



Please also post your favourite quotation, of which there are many, attributed to this person...
 
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Very witty misanthrope... long gone



Please also post your favourite quotation, of which there are many, attributed to this person...

It ain't what they call you, its what you answer to.

W C Fields



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Just for fun, here’s my favourite W C Fields one-liner:

“Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore, always carry a small snake”
 
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My personal favourite

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her"
 
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New Year’s resolution. Tougher puzzles, (I hope!) Clue. The answer is NOT the female in the clue.

 
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The first thing that springs to mind is Marie Curie

...but she's no resolution.

...drawing board
 
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New Year’s resolution. Tougher puzzles, (I hope!) Clue. The answer is NOT the female in the clue.


I reread your post the resolution is tougher puzzles:
so:

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Heard it on the radio yesterday that Beethoven isn’t just considered to be the greatest ever composer, but also the greatest person to have ever lived.

I’ve always thought statements like this very strange, as I don’t know what template one would use to declare a particular human being as ‘the greatest’

Anyway, that’s a clue to the following rebus:

 
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Stumped... I think it might lead to the name of a distillery, but can’t work out the first two images
 
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Heard it on the radio yesterday that Beethoven isn’t just considered to be the greatest ever composer, but also the greatest person to have ever lived.

I’ve always thought statements like this very strange, as I don’t know what template one would use to declare a particular human being as ‘the greatest’

Anyway, that’s a clue to the following rebus:



Very good. The Enigma himself


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Elle
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Stumped... I think it might lead to the name of a distillery, but can’t work out the first two images

Nothing to do with a distillery. The clues lead to the subject of a series of movies from ~ 50 years or more ago.