“Satire depends on sanity, and on contrast with insanity; that is why there is very little satire left.”
G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly July 16, 1927 quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #5 (May-June 2023)
“he was using platitudes to fight stereotypes on behalf of a cliché.”
David Klinghoffer on Edward Zwick, director of The Siege, in National Review Dec. 7, 1998
“Rachel, you’re a long way from desperate.” “I may not be there but I’m on the bus.”
An exchange on a short-lived sitcom called “Flesh ‘n’ Blood” that I apparently watched on Oct. 11, 1991 for reasons I could not possibly now begin to explain.
“Ottawa goes tame”
One of mine from May 20, 2007 re the Senators reaching the Stanley Cup final.
“Monaco was, in Somerset Maugham’s unimprovable summation, ‘a sunny place for shady people’”.
The reference is to when Grace Kelly met Prince Rainier there, in Mark Steyn’s obituary of Prince Rainier in The Atlantic Monthly July-August 2005
“Maybe if we start telling people their brain is an app, they’ll want to use it.”
Comment by “mikeorclem” on the Climate Discussion Nexus “Hottest Ever Except Not” video.
“If he were a dog-catcher he’d come back with a cat.”
Tweet by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov Oct. 25, 2023 (his specific target was U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan) [https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1717261213267079412?s=20]
His home town of Hearne, SK “is so small we couldn’t afford a village idiot – everyone had to take turns.”
Allan Fotheringham in Maclean’s Oct. 25, 1999