Clever jabs
277 quotes from 161 people
Ann Coulterborn 1961“Obama Is Not A Muslim” (September 1, 2010).There are a lot of bad Republicans; there are no good Democrats.
Ann Coulterborn 1961Interview with Brian Lamb at Booknotes (August 11, 2002).Anyone who thinks the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world is a twat.
Brian Coxborn 1968Radio Times interview, Sept 8, 2008.
Russell Croweborn 1964New York Daily News (2000)
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941Reviewing Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution (1989) by Maitland A. Edey and Donald C. Johanson
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926What’s the matter with Chicago? (1902)Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.
Daniel Defoe1660–1731The True-Born Englishman (1701), Pt. I, l. 374.Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
That few but such as cannot write, translate.
John Denham1615–1669To Sir Richard Fanshaw (1648), line 1The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself.
- EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
- EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
- EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
You know who critics are?— the men who have failed in literature and art.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Lothair (1870), Ch. 35If in his study he hath so much care
To hang all old strange things, let his wife beware.
John Donne1572–1631Epigrams, “Antiquary”, in Poems (1633)
