Great One Liners

[storeynicholas]

I certainly hope the Berra streaker story is not apocryphal!

That reminds me of the streaker that appeared on the Academy Awards show some time in the 1970s. David Niven was the master of ceremonies. When the streaker interrupted his presentation, Niven, without missing a beat, remarked how some people are always compelled to "display their shortcomings. " It brought down the roof.

Yes, quite superb. david Niven had an enormous fund of anecdotes. I am sure that everyone knows the one about the angrt Italian film director shouting at his cast and crew....
NJS

No, we (I at least ) do not. Please tell .


Frog in Suit

Well, I think that it's in one of his autobiographical books The Moon's A Balloon or Bring On The Empty Horses I'm sorry that I don't remember the director's name - but an Italian film director became angry on set and turned on the cast and crew, shouting: You think I know **** nothing - BUT I TELL YOU - I KNOW **** ALL!

NJS

[Concordia]

I heard that one about a Swiss conductor working in London.

Unban legend alert!

[storeynicholas]

Indeed.
NJS

[masterfred]

Wasn't the title of Bring on the Empty Horses a phrase attributed to Michael Curtiz (director of, among other films, Casablanca and Robin Hood)?

[storeynicholas]

Wasn't the title of Bring on the Empty Horses a phrase attributed to Michael Curtiz (director of, among other films, Casablanca and Robin Hood)?

There's a reference to it in relation the filming of The Charge of The Light Brigade, which Cutiz directed, when he was referring to riderless mounts.
NJS

[marcelo]

“... pain and pleasure at least are words which a man has no need, we may hope, to go to a Lawyer to know the meaning of.” Jeremy Bentham

[storeynicholas]

“... pain and pleasure at least are words which a man has no need, we may hope, to go to a Lawyer to know the meaning of.” Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham, is, they, say, these days, merely a stuffed shirt!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Present - but not voting - what sort of life is that???
NJS

[Rogue49]

Young women...old scotch

[storeynicholas]

Young women...old scotch

Bottle by the neck, woman by the waist.

[marcelo]

Not voting, indeed, but if the voting itself is to be fair, it is to be conducted on Benthamite grounds, on the balance of pleasures and pains ensuing from it…

[RWS]

Young women...old scotch

Bottle by the neck, woman by the waist.

Where did I hear, "bottle by the neck, woman by the hand"?

[storeynicholas]

Young women...old scotch

Bottle by the neck, woman by the waist.

Where did I hear, "bottle by the neck, woman by the hand"?

That's the first stage.....
NJS

[carl browne]

"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a puropse in life is not."
Oscar Wilde.

Do any of you gentlemen know if this quote is authentic? It seems ungrammatical. Shouldn't it be "Looking good and dressing well are necessities?" And isn't the idiom "looking good" a late 20th century device? Is it even grammatical to "look good?"
Or should one "look well," instead?

Is this a corruption of an actual Wilde Quote?

I thought I'd keep this in my mental one liner file, but I'd like go get it right.

Carl

[andrei67]

"Move slowly if you must, but don't stop"
Robert Evans

[newtom]

About the UK's current Loyal Opposition. "x was born with a silver spoon up his nose."