Clever jabs
277 quotes from 161 people
Alice Cooperborn 1948On Marilyn Manson, as quoted in Celebrity Diss and Tell: Stars Talk About Each Other (2005) by Boze Hadleigh
Sharon Stoneborn 1958The Washington Post (June 20, 2001)
Oswald Mosley1896–1980Winston Churchill, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, had returned Britain to the gold standard and Mosley believed this would lead to unemployment, quoted in Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley (Papermacs, 1981), p. 143.
Pauline Hansonborn 1954Maiden Speech as the Member for Oxley (1996)
Sarah Palinborn 19642008 Republican National ConventionAnyone who thinks the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world is a twat.
Brian Coxborn 1968Radio Times interview, Sept 8, 2008.I grew up here in Washington, D.C., back during the quaint, old-fashioned “Rule of Law” period.
Julia Louis-Dreyfusborn 1961Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech (2018)When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Statement to an Indiana Regiment passing through Washington (17 March 1865)Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
