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A pig, an ass, a dunghill, the spawn of an adder, a
basilisk, a lying buffoon, a mad fool with a frothy mouth.
- Martin Luther, on Henry VIII
The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who
do.
- Harold Coffin
Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.
- Jim Davis (Garfield the Cat)
He was a bit like a corkscrew. Twisted, cold and sharp.
- Kate Cruise O'Brien
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was
waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
- Mark Twain
A man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the
outside, hard and cold within.
- Joseph O'Connor, on C. P. Snow
An enchanting toad of a man.
- Helen Hayes on Robert Benchley
She's so pure, Moses couldn't even part her knees.
- Joan Rivers
She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their
hunted expression.
- C. S. Lewis
He was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
-William Faulkner
A dork is a dork is a dork.
- Judy Markey
He could never see a belt without hitting below it.
- Margot Asquith
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
- David Lloyd George
He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.
- Paul Keating
He made enemies as naturally as soap makes suds.
- Percival Wilde
He makes a July's day short as December.
- William Shakespeare
He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged.
- Simone Signoret
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a
channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.
- W. Somerset Maugham
She proceeds to dip her little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and
to squirt the mixture at all her friends.
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