“One good thing about silence is that it can’t be repeated.”
Variously attributed online including anonymously.
“Invited to choose between two bad poets, Dr. Johnson said he declined to adjudicate the precedence between a louse and a flea.”
Mark Steyn in National Post June 28, 2001
“I would not breed from this officer”
One of several apparently authentic British military Officer Fitness Reports quoted by Steve Madely in Ottawa Sun February 10, 1999
“He was rude and unhygienic.”
“The robot head in Lexx: The Dark Zone Stories Jan. 1, 1999” [It’s the source I recorded and I’m sticking to it although I can offer no justification for ever having watched an episode (or even knowing the show existed, which in fact I’d forgotten) except that as summaries of someone’s undesirability go this line is excellent. Google confirms that the show existed and lasted four seasons (!) and says the robot head’s name was 790 and who am I to argue?]
“a maddening knowledge that among fools in the land of Egypt I might claim high rank…”
Narrator Shan Greville in Sax Rohmer The Mask of Fu Manchu
“Of those who say nothing, few are silent.”
Thomas Neill quoted on https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/525050-of-those-who-say-nothing-few-are-silent
“‘The best lack all conviction...’ something like that. ‘What rough beast... slouches towards Bethlehem to be born.’ A creature with bad posture, nightmare of the world.”
Philip K. Dick The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
“Don’t hate yourself in the morning – sleep till noon.”
Ashley Elliott quoted as the “Smile” (a feature contributed by readers, I believe) in Globe & Mail June 29, 2001