“She ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B.”
An unnamed critic re “Katherine Hepburn in a Broadway performance”, quoted by George F. Will in National Post July 9, 2001 in order to apply the same insult to Holden Caulfield
“Tourists don’t know where they have been, and travellers don’t know where they are going.”
Paul Theroux quoted by James Michael Dorsey in The Christian Science Monitor requoted in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail May 17, 2013
“Since my last report he has reached rock bottom, and has started to dig”
Another apparently authentic British military Officer Fitness Reports quoted by Steve Madely in Ottawa Sun February 10, 1999
“cast into the furnace of contempt.”
Robert B. Heilman “Freedom from Speech” in Jack E. Conner & Marcelline Krafchick, eds., Speaking of Rhetoric
“Are you attacking my reputation?” “No, I’m just commenting on how low it is.”
An exchange I had the privilege of witnessing between two of my co-workers some years back.
“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