Clever jabs
277 quotes from 161 people
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Religion and Science (1935)The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986On the Falklands War, as quoted in Time magazine (14 February 1983)
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 1
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
John Oliverborn 1977Last Week Tonight—Immigration, Stephen Hawking & Football (ff. 0:16:15) (15 June 2014)
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936In The Illustrated London News (1924)I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell1887–1964The Last Years of a Rebel (1967), p. 24
Robert E. Howard1906–1936From a letter to H. P. Lovecraft (5 December 1935)
Ann Coulterborn 1961“Obama Is Not A Muslim” (September 1, 2010).
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981), No. 45: To his son Michael (9 June 1941)
Charlton Heston1923–2008Speech at the Harvard Law School (1999), as quoted in “Appreciation: Charlton Heston” in Time magazine (April 6, 2008)
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto1928–1979Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 63.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 4Britain is basically Pompeii if Pompeii had voted for the volcano.
John Oliverborn 1977Last Week Tonight (2014–present), On Brexit.I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Aneurin Bevan1897–1960Interview in The Times (29 March 1960), p. 7