Clever jabs
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He is a very modest man with a great deal to be modest about.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
I once said cynically of a politician, ‘He’ll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.’
Oscar Levant1906–1972The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965), p. 13He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot1819–1880Adam Bede (1859), Chapter 33
John Milton1608–1674Often credited to Henry Kissinger
