John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon GCSI GCVO OBE PC was a British politician and statesman.
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“Miss Garland's figure resembles the giant-economy-size tube of toothpaste in girls' bathrooms: Squeezed intemperately at all points, it acquires a shape that defies definition by the most resourceful solid geometrician.”
Sir John Simon
“Sandy Dennis has balanced her postnasal condition with something like prefrontal lobotomy, so that when she is not a walking catarrh she is a blithering imbecile.”
“Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.”
“Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.”
“The only real talent Miss Day possesses is that of being absolutely sanitary: her personality untouched by human emotions, her brow unclouded by human thought, her form unsmudged by the slightest form of femininity.”