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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) | He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. | |
Alexander Woollcott | He became mellow before he became ripe. | |
Ashleigh Brilliant | Sometimes I need what only you can provide - Your absence. | |
David Letterman (1947 - ) | Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving. | |
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | Johnson:'...She is like the Amazons of old; she must be courted by the sword. But I have not been severe to her.' Boswell: 'Yes, Sir, you have made her ridiculous.' Johnson: 'That was already done, Sir. To endeavour to make her ridiculous, is like blacking the chimney.' | |
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | He attacked Gray, calling him' a dull fellow.' Boswell: I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company; but surely he was not dull in poetry.' Johnson: 'Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT. He was a mechanical poet.' | |
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare, being mentioned; Reynolds: "I think that essay does her honour." Johnson: "Yes, Sir, it does her honour, but it would do nobody else honour. I have indeed, not read it all. But when I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread, I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery." | |
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is still but an insect, and the other is a horse still. | |
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) | Mr Shaw is (I suspect) the only man on earth who has never written any poetry. | |
George Jean Nathan | He writes his plays for the ages -- the ages between five and twelve | |
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977) | I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. | |
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) | It is his life work to announce the obvious in terms of the scandalous. | |
Howard Dietz | A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country. | |
James Thurber | A man should not insult his wife publicly at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home. | |
Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) | If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon. | |
Johnny Carson (1925 - ) | Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair. | |
Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972) | I never watch the Dinah Shore show -- I'm a diabetic. | |
Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972) | I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away. - (to an obnoxious acquaintance.) | |
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) | Bernard Shaw has no enemies but is intensely disliked by his freinds. | |
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) | One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell by Dickens without laughing. | |
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) | Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. | |
Quentin Crisp | He festooned the dung heap on which he had placed himself with sonnets as people grow honeysuckle around outdoor privies. | |
Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) | He had one of the more wicked minds ever going. | |
W. S. Gilbert | No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast. | |
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) | I dote on his very absence. | |
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) | Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about | |
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) | He is a sheep in sheep's clothing |
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