(8 quotes found)
“Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas”
Eric Bentley
“Sir Christopher Wren / Said, `I am going to dine with some men, / If anybody calls / Say I am designing St Paul's.'”
“Geography is about maps, / But Biography is about chaps.”
“Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.”
“If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.”
“George the Third / Ought never to have occurred. / One can only wonder / At so grotesque a blunder.”
“I cannot think of any repartee, / I simply wag my great, long, furry ears.”
“What I like about Clive / Is that he is no longer alive. / There is a great deal to be said / For being dead.”
