“Write according to my decree, or I will get a brain aneurysm” - Czarcasm
Funniest line eve by Johnny Carson: Famous misquoted people in history:
Admiral Nelson: “Do you like show tunes, Hardy?”
Good ones, especially the Shakespeare.
Let’s avoid personal pot shots in this forum.
“Forget it Billy. I’m not kissing that bitch again.”
–Actor Tony Curtis on the set of Some Like it Hot with director Billy Wilder and co-star Marilyn Monroe
“Is everything set with the Frenchman?”
–Sam Giancana, ca. late 1963.
“Get me another bottle and my revolver.”
–“Col.” Griffith J. Griffith.
“It’s no use crying over spilled ebelskiver.”
–Kierkegaard
Reporter in 1865: “Aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?”
“You can fool some of the people all of the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time, and usually that is sufficient.” Abraham Lincoln.
“Mr.Putin, put up that wall”: Trump
“I’ll be right back, I’m just going to check on the cake.”
~Sylvia Plath
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Then when we fear fear, we also fear the fearing of fear.”
FDR’s inaugural address
“As First Lord of the Admiralty, all I have to offer is rum, sodomy and the lash.”
-Winston Churchill.
“I never said I was a jelly donut.” – John F. Kennedy
“What the fuck, Hardy? I said kismet.” - Admiral Nelson
Out fucking standing! Without the WTF, it would work. Perhaps, “Damn your eyes, Hardy!”
(Nelson was hit by a sharp shooter from a French ship at the sea battle of Trafalgar, and as he died he said to his Flag Captain, Thomas Hardy, “Kiss me, Hardy.”)
From Wikipedia:
According to the contemporary accounts, Nelson last words were:
"Take care of my dear Lady Hamilton, Hardy, take care of poor Lady Hamilton". He paused then said very faintly, "Kiss me, Hardy". This, Hardy did, on the cheek. Nelson then said, "Now I am satisfied. Thank God I have done my duty".
The later story, that Nelson’s last words were “Kismet [fate] Hardy”, aren’t supported by any contemporary evidence. In fact, ‘kismet’ isn’t recorded as being in use in English to mean fate until as late as 1830, a quarter of a century after Nelson died. That euphemistic version of events is thought to be a later invention that attempted to avoid embarrassment by covering up the supposed homo-erotic imagery of men kissing. That was misguided in more ways than one, not least because platonic kisses between men at times of great emotion weren’t viewed in the way in 19th century England.
Aside from that, Mrs. Kennedy, how was your trip to Dallas?
Aside from that, Yoko Ono, how did the recording session go?
Aside from that, Prince Charles, how was your vacation with your sons?
Having read the draft of* Portrait* I can say with sincerity that a far more incomprehensible novel is in the offing.
-Mr. Samuel Clemens epigraph of James Joyce’ Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1st Ed.