Sir John Simon quote: "Sandy Dennis has balanced her postnasal condition with something like prefrontal lobotomy, so that when she is not a walking catarrh she is a blithering imbecile."

The only real talent Miss Day possesses is that of being absolutely sanitary: her personality untouc...
SIR JOHN SIMON

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
SIR JOHN SIMON

Miss Garland's figure resembles the giant-economy-size tube of toothpaste in girls' bathrooms: Squee...
SIR JOHN SIMON

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.
SIR JOHN SIMON

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
JOHN SIMON

Some years ago, writing about stage adaptations of fiction, I noted:
JOHN SIMON

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
JOHN SIMON

We propose... the photo-reactivity of human melanin can contribute to the observed epidemiology.
JOHN SIMON

This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a ...
JOHN SIMON

Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Look you, Amanda, you may build Castles in the Air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but t...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have ever...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anth...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debau...
SIR JOHN HERSCHEL

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.
SIR JOHN EGAN

Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not pl...
SIR JOHN HARVEY

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
SIR JOHN BOWRING

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer an...
SIR JOHN ELIOT

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckl...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, sayin...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedo...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.
SIR JOHN SUCKLING

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
SIR JOHN DAVIES

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

'Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.'
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

Secrecy is the badge of fraud.
SIR JOHN CHADWICK

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
SIR JOHN HARVEY

You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the fi...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might g...
SIR JOHN BOWRING

We are never like angels till our passion dies.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of w...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
SIR JOHN HERSCHEL

Deeds are males, words females are.
SIR JOHN DAVIES

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted ...
SIR JOHN DENHAM

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt. [Fr., Vous...
SIR JOHN DENHAM

Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON

'Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; ...
SIR JOHN DENHAM

Best fishing in troubled waters.
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmas...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the ligh...
SIR JOHN SUCKLING

The four most dangerous words in investing are 'This time it's different.'
SIR JOHN TEMPLETON

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
SIR JOHN DAVIES

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.
SIR JOHN HOLT

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really sufferin...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
SIR JOHN POWELL

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide: If aught...
SIR JOHN DAVIES

O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; Though de...
SIR JOHN DENHAM

A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- D...
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

Nothing happens until something moves.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

There was a man bespake a think, Which when the owner home did bring, He that made it did refu...
SIR JOHN DAVIES

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world (The Relapse)
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.
SIR JOHN SUCKLING

A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to th...
SIR JOHN SUCKLING

Many worthy people, and many good books, with no doubt the best intentions, ... have represented a l...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

Moche Crye and no Wull.
SIR JOHN FORTESCUE

Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon...
SIR JOHN DENHAM

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

Go to Jericho. Let them all go to Jericho, And ne'er be seen againe.
SIR JOHN BERKENHEAD

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer show...
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY

Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD

It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.
SIR JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS

Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD

The people would rather have John A. drunk than Brown sober
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD

The laboratory is the highest containment laboratory that you can make and, from that point of view,...
DR. SIR JOHN SKEHEL

We started the whole network in 1947 from this laboratory on behalf of the WHO, so the World Influen...
DR. SIR JOHN SKEHEL

Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.
SIR GIRAD

No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego li...
SIR WILLIAM

There are signs that the younger generation is different, that they will not kill their daughters fo...
AYTEKIN SIR

These people brought the mentality of small villages into the big cities.
AYTEKIN SIR

There was no difference between the answers of the men and the uneducated women in the poll. Only ed...
AYTEKIN SIR

It is so hard to change people's mentality. It will take many years.
AYTEKIN SIR

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
SIR GIRAD

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.
SIMON SINEK

Always the journey, never the destination.
SIMON RATTLE

The majority of my work is about preparation.
TARYN SIMON

I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles intere...
TARYN SIMON

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
TARYN SIMON

In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered ...
TARYN SIMON

I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answe...
TARYN SIMON

With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a...
SAM SIMON

I'd rather be nauseous than tired, I think.
SAM SIMON

I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do t...
SAM SIMON

'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thoug...
SAM SIMON

I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
SAM SIMON

One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, ...
SAM SIMON

The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken ...
SAM SIMON

Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
SAM SIMON

I don't believe in miracles.
SAM SIMON

I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their We...
SAM SIMON

A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl....
SAM SIMON

I want to do whatever I can to survive.
SAM SIMON

I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begr...
SAM SIMON

Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate chang...
SAM SIMON

The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's fun...
SAM SIMON

There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bi...
SAM SIMON

When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.
SAM SIMON

Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.
SAM SIMON

Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused anim...
SAM SIMON

No matter when or where, always bring your 'A' game, because you never know when it will ope...
SIMON SINEK

I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
SIMON SINEK

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
SIMON SINEK

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.
SIMON SINEK

A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and r...
SIMON SINEK

People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
SIMON SINEK

If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would hav...
SIMON COWELL

There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.
SIMON SINEK

Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born s...
SIMON SINEK

We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first p...
SIMON SINEK

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for bette...
SIMON SINEK

Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyt...
SIMON HOGGART

Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young.
SIMON RATTLE

One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arriv...
SIMON HOGGART

He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have sai...
SIMON CALLOW

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinning...
HERBERT SIMON

Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue t...
SIMON MAINWARING

Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
SIMON SINEK

I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.
SIMON REUBEN

I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of read...
MARGE SIMON

Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chick...
SIMON HOGGART

I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past ...
SIMON HOGGART

The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world...
SIMON MAINWARING

Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever w...
SIMON COWELL

What do we do after? Build a transfer station? Direct haul? And what will the form be? Contract with...
ALAN SIMON

If we fill to capacity we don't have to do a tax or bond to cover the rest.
ALAN SIMON

We're taking in less [household] trash and have more capacity. And capacity equals money.
ALAN SIMON

It's pretty much a lull in the action. We're looking forward to the next few years.
ALAN SIMON

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergo...
SIMON MAINWARING

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then t...
SIMON RATTLE

As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywoo...
SIMON BEAUFOY

Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big tro...
SIMON COWELL

Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.
SIMON TRAVAGLIA

I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - i...
SIMON COWELL

I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual ...
SIMON COWELL

I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I sho...
SIMON BIRD

It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his we...
SIMON HOGGART

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fir...
SIMON SINEK

The most potentially transformative impact of social media is its ability to encourage brands to mar...
SIMON MAINWARING

Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporatio...
SIMON MAINWARING

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
ST. SIMON

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.
NEIL SIMON

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow.
SIMON DACH

In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'fr...
SIMON SINEK

There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it...
SIMON GREENLEAF

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our reli...
SIMON GREENLEAF

People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others d...
SIMON MORDEN

Oga. Watu hawaogi ndiyo maana wachafu. Kuoga ni lazima kutumia maji. Ukitaka kuoga neno, tumia maji;...
SIMON MASHALLA

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire pe...
SIMON SINEK

There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhe...
TED SIMON

America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, aw...
SIMON HOGGART

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
NEIL SIMON

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their ...
SIMON HOGGART

To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects an...
TED SIMON

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
PAUL SIMON

Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct ...
SIMON SCHAMA

Sandy Dennis has balanced her postnasal condition with something like prefrontal lobotomy, so that when she is not a walking catarrh she is a blithering imbecile.

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Sandy Dennis has balanced her postnasal condition with something like prefrontal lobotomy, so that when she is not a walking catarrh she is a blithering imbecile.

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