Smart Stuff

Tact consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
Jean Cocteau
Thinking all you say without saying all you think. Unknown

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
(Enoch) Arnold Bennet
Taste is the feminine of genius.
Edward Fitzgerald

But I warn the Revenue and my creditors generally that I am nearing the end of
my patience. It is a long worm that has no turning, and the turn this worm will
take if not left reasonably alone is Carey Street…They have had eightpence out
of every shilling the worm has made. At ninepence it gets restive […]

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen
Television: The bland leading the bland. Anon
Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
W. H. Auden
If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson
Television is democracy at it’s ugliest.
Paddy Chayevsky
Very little. The programs constantly repeat themselves […]

I am not overfond of resisting temptation.
William Beckford
The best way to get the better of temptation is just to yield to it.
Clementina Stirling Graham
Resisting temptation is usually just a matter of putting it off until nobody’s looking.
Franklin Jones
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we’ll find it.
Sam Levinson
Ther are several good […]

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless
he or she has bronchitis.
James Agate
Theatre Director: A person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that
the players cannot act.
James Agate
You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained…I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction…I […]

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than where you
live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think
about you.
George Adams
Thought breaks the heart.
African Proverb
Before shooting, one must aim.
African Proverb
It is a sorry business to inquire into what men think, when we are every day only […]

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein. Anon
Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once. Anon
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I would explain to one inquiring, I know not.
St. Augustine
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the […]

Here’s to our wives and sweethearts - may they never meet.
John Bunny
Ladies and Gentlemen I give you a toast. It is, “Absinthe makes the tart grow
fonder.”
Hugh Drummond
At the Hay Fever Club: Here’s looking at-choooo!

One test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Unknown
The patience shown by a wise man when he’s listening to an ignoramus. Unknown
The uncomfortable feeling that the other person may be right after all. Unknown