"Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting."

-- Clive James

#Humorous Quotes #Order Quotes #Tangled Quotes

“Never be satisfied with the world's standard of Christianity!”
“Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit either the ocean or desolate regions on Earth's surface. So why do movie meteors have such good aim?”
“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
“Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!”
“Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.”
“But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear that holds men back - fear lest their cherished beliefs should prove delusions, fear lest the institutions by which they live should prove harmful, fear lest they themselves should prove less worthy of respect than they have supposed themselves to be.”
“Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.”

Source : "Carolyn Hax Live: Advice Columnist Tackles Your Problems". Live Discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. August 7, 2009.
“All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.”

You may also like:

Barry Humphries
Comedian
Christopher Hitchens
Author
Clive Anderson
Presenter
Germaine Greer
Journalist
Martin Amis
Novelist
Peter Cook
Actor
Philip Larkin
Poet
Robert Hughes
Art critic
W. H. Auden
Poet