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Epigrammatic Insults
On musicals:
'A series of catastrophies ending with a floor show.' Oscar Levant
On ambition:
'Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.' Walter Savage Landor
On the works of J. M. Barrier
'The triumph of sugar over diabetes.' George Nathan
On men:
'The only original thing about some men is original sin.' Helen Rowland
On women:
'A woman's place is in the wrong.'James Thurber On democracy:
'Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.' George Bernard Shaw
On charity:
'One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.' Oscar Wilde
On marriage:
'The success of marriage comes after the failure of the honeymoon.' O.K. Chesterton
'Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.' Beverley Nichols
On music:
'Perhaps it was because Nero fiddled that they burned Rome.' Oliver Herford
On optimism:
'The basis of optimism is sheer terror.' Oscar Wilde
On modesty:
'The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig leaf.' Mark Twain
On writing:
'The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is never read.' Oscar Wilde
On our aspirations:
'No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.' Dr. Johnson |
