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I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her “a beautiful little knitter”.
Edith Sitwell1887–1964Describing Virginia Woolf in a letter to Geoffrey Singleton (11 July 1955); John Lehmann and Derek Palmer, eds., Selected Letters (1970)
- Clever Jabs
- Writing
Gallows, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Life & Death
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980Newsweek (11 June 1956).
- Movies
The interpretations of Freud are more and more successful because they are among the myths accessible to modern man.
Mircea Eliade1907–1986No Souvenirs (1977) later retitled Journal II, 1957-1969 (1989), p. 117
- Clever Jabs
I wouldn’t wear a tie-dyed tee-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.
KCKurt Cobain1967–1994As quoted in Melody Maker (18 July 1992)
- Clever Jabs
- Music
I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
Evelyn Waugh1903–1966Decline and Fall (1928)
- Art
I’d like to take you now, on wings of song as it were, and try and help you forget for a while your drab, wretched lives.
Tom Lehrer1928–2025An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer (1959)
Hopelessness isn’t the same as happiness, but it’s enough to make the employees stop complaining, and that’s a good start.
Scott Adams1957–2026Dogbert’s Top Secret Management Handbook (1996)
- Work
The elevation of Foucault to guru status by American and British academics is a tale that belongs to the history of cults.
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays (1992), “Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf”, p. 174
- Clever Jabs
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett1948–2015Diggers (1990)
- Thinking
They claimed that the old man had a knuckle-duster on his right, which is ridiculous and a dirty lie. He had it on his left.
Robert E. Howard1906–1936“The Pit of the Serpent” (1929)
What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream? Or what’s worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
Woody Allenborn 1935Without Feathers (1975)
- Philosophy
Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
Lily Tomlinborn 1939Saturday Night Live (1975)
- Children
Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.
John Cleeseborn 1939On Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1997)
- Acting
That’s the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Garrison Keillorborn 1942News from Lake Wobegon