“Dirt for Earth, Soil, or Gravel. A most disagreeable Americanism, discredited by general (and Presidential) use. ‘Make the dirt fly.’ Dirt means filth.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
Posted in Quotes, Social Sciences
Tagged cognition/learning/understanding, humor, literary oddities
“It is curious how incest, impotence, nymphomania, religious mania and real estate speculation can be so dull.”
Richard Findlater, Time and Tide
“Lillian Hellman has chosen to write on a Tennessee Williams theme in an Agatha Christie style.”
Times (London)
“Scoundrel Time is historically a fraud, artistically a put-up job, and emotionally packed with meanness.”
Dwight MacDonald, Esquire
Excerpted from: Barnard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
Posted in New York City, Quotes
Tagged drama/theater, fiction/literature, humor, literary oddities
“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes
Tagged fiction/literature, humor, literary oddities, united states history
“Bretton Woods: A system for international financial management and stability which was put in place by the Allies, minus the Soviets, in 1944 and destroyed in 1973 by President Richard Nixon without consideration being given to a replacement.
Nixon hoped in this way to solve some short-term American economic problems by recreating the sort of financial disorder in which the largest power would be the best placed to benefit. It could be said that this was the single most evil act undertaken by a leader in the postwar period. Other leaders should be discouraged, however. The opportunity to do worse is perpetual.”
Excerpted from: Saul, John Ralston. The Doubter’s Companion. New York: The Free Press, 1994.
“On the death of a Hollywood movie queen whose sensational love-life had been highly publicized, Benchley suggested an epitaph” ‘She sleeps alone at last.’”
Excerpted from: Drennan, Robert E., ed. The Algonquin Wits. New York: Kensington, 1985.
“Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and police.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
“What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes
Tagged fiction/literature, humor, literary oddities
“To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Tagged fiction/literature, humor, literary oddities
“History would be a wonderful thing—if it were only true.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
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