Clever jabs
277 quotes from 161 people
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I (28 July 1763) p. 128Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III (May 1776) p. 313- Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III (12 October 1779)
- Samuel Johnson1709–1784In James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), entry for 21 July 1763
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike;
One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
Ben Jonson1572–1637Epigrams (1616), LXI: To Fool, or KnaveThere’s reason good, that you good laws should make:
Men’s manners ne’er were viler, for your sake.Ben Jonson1572–1637Epigrams (1616), XXIV: To the ParliamentShakespeare is the happy huntingground of all minds that have lost their balance.
“Socialism with a human face”? … Frankenstein also had a human face.
Garry Kasparovborn 1963Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Ch. III- John Maynard Keynes1883–1946Keynes Papers, as quoted in Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 2 (1992), p. 232
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev1894–1971Comment on the construction of a bridge in Belgrade (22 August 1963), quoted in Chicago Tribune (22 August 1963) “Khrushchev Needles Peking”
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Interview in Playboy (January 1965)I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
Donald Knuthborn 1938Digital Typography, ch. 33, p. 649 (1999)
