Clever jabs
277 quotes from 161 people
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- Edith Sitwell1887–1964Describing Virginia Woolf in a letter to Geoffrey Singleton (11 July 1955); John Lehmann and Derek Palmer, eds., Selected Letters (1970)
Sydney Smith1771–1845Peter Plymley’s Letters (1808), Letter IVIt requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 2, pp. 31–32- Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 7, p. 205.
Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 9, p. 317- Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 2, p. 36
- Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 11, p. 415
- Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 9, p. 310
- Sydney Smith1771–1845Referring to the lack of established culture and the established institution of slavery in the United States, in “Review of Seybert’s Annals of the United States”, The Edinburgh Review (1820), pp. 79-80
If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy.
Thomas Sowellborn 1930“Supreme Hypocrisy”, 29 March 2016
Joseph Stalin1878–1953“The Elections in St. Petersburg”, article in Sotsial-Demokrat No. 30 (January 1913)An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Remarks to a Baptist convention in Texas during the 1952 presidential campaignI regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894The New Arabian Nights (1882)