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"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" (Oscar Wilde)

4.33 Stars | 15 ratings

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"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." (Dorothy Parker)

4.29 Stars | 14 ratings

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"Canada could have had French culture, American know-how, and English government. Instead it got French government, English know-how, and American culture." (John Colombo)

4.21 Stars | 14 ratings

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"Egad sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox." "That will depend, my Lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress." (John Wilkes to the Earl of Sandwich

4.36 Stars | 11 ratings

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"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." (H.L. Mencken)

4.40 Stars | 10 ratings

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"Why should I question the monkey, when I can question the organ grinder?" (Aneurin Bevan, preferring to question Prime Minister Churchill rather than the Foreign Secretary)

4.25 Stars | 8 ratings

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"I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire: God wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark." (Duncan Spaeth)

3.89 Stars | 9 ratings

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"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up." (Oscar Wilde)

3.77 Stars | 13 ratings

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"The Republicans once had a War on Poverty. Ronald Reagan started to throw rocks at beggars." (Mike Royko)

3.40 Stars | 10 ratings

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"Not all Gods children are beautiful. Some of God's children are in fact, barely passable." (Fran Lebowitz on New Yorkers)

3.63 Stars | 8 ratings

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"After shaking hands with a Greek, count your fingers." (Albanian Proverb)

3.44 Stars | 9 ratings

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"The real traditions of the British Navy are rum, buggery and the lash." (Winston Churchill)

3.44 Stars | 9 ratings

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"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization." (Georges Clemenceau)

3.43 Stars | 7 ratings

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"I don't even know what street Canada is on." (Al Capone)

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"If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell." (General Philip Sheridan)

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"The only man who can strut sitting down." (Harry Truman on Thomas Dewey)

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"Democracy is a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses." (H.L. Mencken)

3.71 Stars | 7 ratings

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"I sir, do not step aside for a scoundrel." Henry Clay "I on the other hand, always do." (John Randolph meeting Clay on a narrow sidewalk)

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"The reason there are so many tree lined boulevards in Paris is so the German Army can march in the shade." (Attributed to General George Patton)

3.13 Stars | 8 ratings

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"Put an Irishman on the spit, and you can always get another Irishman to turn it." (George Bernard Shaw)

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"This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." (Sigmund Freud on the Irish)

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"The English people are like English beer - froth on the top, dregs at the bottom, the middle - excellent." (Voltaire)

3.60 Stars | 5 ratings

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"The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest." (Clifton Fadiman)

3.60 Stars | 5 ratings

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"A sheep in sheep's clothing." (Winston Churchill on Clement Atlee)

3.33 Stars | 6 ratings

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"May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children chase you so far over the hills of damnation that the Lord himself can't find you with a telescope." (Irish Curse)

3.25 Stars | 8 ratings

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"Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can." (Mark Twain)

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"Go ahead Al. Tell 'em all you know it won't take long." (Heckler) "I'll tell 'em all we both know. It won't take any longer" (Al Smith)

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"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America" (Otto von Bismarck)

3.00 Stars | 5 ratings

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"In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows". -Woody Allen

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"The Physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines".Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869-1959, American Architect and Writer

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Bessie Braddock: "Sir, you are drunk." Winston Churchill "Bessie, you're ugly. But in the morning, 'll be sober."

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"What time is it in Regina, Saskatchewan, when its 12 noon in New York? Answer: 1951." (anonymous Canadian Joke)

3.67 Stars | 3 ratings

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"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." (Mark Twain)

3.33 Stars | 3 ratings

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"Please don't be deterred in the fanatic application of your sterile logic." (Aneurin Bevan of the British Labour Party to his fellow Socialists)

3.25 Stars | 4 ratings

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"The Honourable Member disagrees. I can hear him shaking his head." (Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, replying to a question in the house)

3.20 Stars | 5 ratings

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"A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean." (Thomas Jefferson on England)

3.00 Stars | 6 ratings

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"Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life." (Jeremy Thorpe on a savage cabinet shuffle)

3.00 Stars | 5 ratings

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"They killed our fathers, and now they're coming for us." (Peter Gammons on the Boston Red Sox)

3.00 Stars | 6 ratings

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"Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts". Jeff Foxworthy, 1958-Present, American comedian

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"In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows". -Woody Allen

5.00 Stars | 1 ratings

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"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism" Dr Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, American clergyman

5.00 Stars | 1 ratings

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"The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water" Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish Playwright

4.00 Stars | 1 ratings

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"The word liberty in the mouth of Mr Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan." (Ralph Waldo Emerson on Daniel Webster)

3.67 Stars | 3 ratings

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"The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts." (Richard Sheridan on the Earl of Dundas)

3.33 Stars | 3 ratings

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"I could run on a laundrey ticket and beat those bums any time." (Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York on his opponents)

2.67 Stars | 3 ratings

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"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton" (Wilson Mizner)

2.60 Stars | 5 ratings

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"McKinley has a choclate-eclair backbone." (Teddy Roosevelt on William McKinley)

2.25 Stars | 4 ratings

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"He made his conscience not his guide but his accomplice." (Benjamin Disraeli on William Gladstone)

3.00 Stars | 3 ratings

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"There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants" Sir Chalres James Lyall, 1845-1920, British civil servant and orientalist

3.00 Stars | 1 ratings

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“Men come of age at sixty,women at fifteen.” - James Stephens

3.00 Stars | 1 ratings

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