“Oratory that would make Churchill blush”
A "he's an extraordinary man" insult invented by me May 18, 2005, on watching then Independent, formerly Labour MP George Galloway’s appearance before a U.S. Senate committee
“Brian Mulroney: ‘There is no one quite like him.’”
Charles Gordon in Ottawa Citizen Sept. 17, 2005 suggesting how the former PM should have described himself in a taped interview with Peter C. Newman
Re kids’ preference for bland junk food “It is a situation which I classify (along with most other aspects of domestic life) as desperate but not serious.”
Robert Capon The Supper of the Lamb
“H.L. Mencken’s definition of the pessimist as a man who, if he smells a rose, looks around for a coffin.”
Matthew Scully in National Review October 27, 1997
“‘How was I,’ I asked innocently. ‘Good?’ ‘A most remarkable performance, Minister, if I may say so,’ he answered with studied ambiguity.”
Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey (after a interview in which, in fact, by announcing a policy Hacker had totally checkmated Sir Humphrey) in Yes Minister Vol. I
His father: “How’d I do?” Barney: “I think you made an unforgettable impression.”
Mordecai Richler Barney's Version (After his vulgar father totally offends his new in-laws)
“There are no words to express how much...”
Another "He's an extraordinary man" insult (and in fact I did say it, inspired by a friend's wedding leaflet but without malice).
“Saul Gorn once told me his theory of asceticism: ‘It is well known that the longer one postpones a pleasure, the greater the pleasure is when one finally gets it. Therefore, if one postpones it for ever, the pleasure should be infinite.'”
Raymond Smullyan 5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies