BEST QUOTES

“I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.”Florence King (b. 1936) U.S. novelist and columnist

“I often think it's comicalHow Nature always does contriveThat every boy and every galThat's born into the worl…

“The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right plac…

“Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave…

“When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.”James Goldsmith (1933 – 97) British entrepreneur and politicia…

“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playw…

“Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someo…

“Whatever happens in government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.”Charl…

“The noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.”Laurence J. Peter (1919 – 90) Canadian educat…

“When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on.”Adr…

“There are three things I always forget. Names, faces, and – the third I can't remember.”Italo Svevo (1861 – 1928)…

“Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.”Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 – 1946) Briti…

“To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.”Woody Allen (b. 1935) U.S. humorist, actor and film d…

“Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.”Adlai E. Stevenson…

“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.”Ed Gardner (1901 – 63) U.S. broadcaster

“Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was – like eating an egg without salt.”Rudyard Kipling (1865 – …

“Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.”Jim Backus (1913 – 89) U.S. film act…

“A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.”Edgar Watson Howe (1853 – 1937) U.S. nov…

“The waist is a terrible thing to mind.The mind is a terrible thing to waste.”Anonymous (graffito)

“A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.”Georges Pompid…