humor

"He's probably the single most untalented person I've heard in my life. He's a two-bit pretentious academic, and he can't play rock'n'roll, because he's a loser. And that's why he dresses up funny. He'…"

"Without you ghost ferries would cross the Mersey manned by skeleton crews"

"Still another nightmare he suffered at a dance given by the old Duchess Dowager of Somerset, a terrible vision in castanets, who seized him and forced him to perform a Highland fling before the assemb…"

"No man ought to be so absurd as to make a purchase without looking at the title deeds; if he is, he must take the consequence of his own negligence."

"Patrick imagined Kay’s father sunk in the back of the car, his eyes glazed over with exhaustion and his lungs, like torn fishing nets, trawling vainly for air."

"That little electric twitch: without it we're so much rotting meat."

"It seems so sad to see the little dirt-grimed brats try to play in the noisy courts and muddy streets. Poor little uncared-for, unwanted human atoms, they are not children. Children are bright-eyed, c…"

"This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics."

"We both be at our wittes end."

"…British louts with guitars and emetic little songs…infantile screamers…"

"Vazquez is the fiercest opponent I have ever faced and I wear my super bantamweight championship belt with pride because I won it by defeating him."

"I would say that I write out of frustration. If I were a witch, I would twitch my nose and fix it all and make things easier for all of us. That's what's underneath it."

"There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in."

"could not stay in a Cabinet which had to carry out withdrawal ."

"I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand."

"Listen, don't look so depressed, old fellow. This is what all of Heine's poems are like, it's only peasants who don't laugh at them; or rather, perhaps, Calvinists. Abroad, it's the normal practice th…"

"This evil nation has smeared fag feces blended with fag semen and dyke feces on the Bible!"

"There is no need for us to be satisfied with a rate of growth that keeps good men out of work and good capacity out of use."

"I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do."

"Kate Bush Returns with 'Aerial'"