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- When I get smitten, I stay smut.
- Charlie McCarthy
- The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
- Quentin Crisp
- I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diner's Club.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.
- Jim Samuels
- In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
- Cato, Roman statesman and historian
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