Clever jabs
277 quotes from 161 people
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitzborn 1950“Manners” (p. 6).
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Letter to Isham Reavis (5 November 1855)Jim Bakker spells his name with two k’s because three would be too obvious.
Some folks look at me and see swagger, which in Texas is called ‘walking’.
George W. Bushborn 1946Speech accepting the Republican nomination for President in New York City (September 2004)I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973Often credited to Margaret ThatcherI never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.
Groucho Marx1890–1977Quote by Leo Rosten in The Many Worlds of Leo Rosten (1964)That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say No in any of them.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967A similar line was later used by Ira Gershwin in “The Saga of Jenny” in Lady in the Dark (1942): “In 27 languages she couldn’t say no.”
