“How come dumb stuff seems so smart while you’re doing it?”
Dennis the Menace, quoted in NCC Overview Winter 2002
“I can honestly say my respect for you has never been higher.”
Dogbert (to Dilbert, scornfully) in Dilbert in Ottawa Sun July 19, 1996
“Start every day with a smile and get it over with.”
W.C. Fields, quoted in the features on a DVD of six classic W.C. Fields shorts I acquired years ago
“I am quite sure your Majesty played as successfully as usual.”
A character in The Man in the Iron Mask (the 1977 movie)
“Drive slowly and enjoy the scenery – drive fast and join the scenery.”
Douglas Horton, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com/2014/01/gamblers-fools-and-egotists-59-still_31.html
“The inner courtyard boasted a fountain, a stretch of lawn and some comparatively unobjectionable early baroque cloisters.”
Hans Hellmut Kirst The Night of the Generals [and credit translator J. Maxwell Brownjohn for rendering that "damning with faint praise" insult so well]
"He's human all right. He's got to be. No other critter on earth would make such a fool of himself."
Bull Harris (about Sherrif J.P. Harrah) in El Dorado
“Our coffee is every bit as fresh and delicious as anything else we sell.”
An ad I saw years ago that could be taken two very different ways.