Criticism & Other Zingers

• She ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B. — Dorothy Parker on Katharine Hepburn's performance in "The Lake"
• California is a great place to live, if you happen to be an orange. — Fred Allen
• "Perfectly Scandalous" was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly. — Robert Benchley
• I went to Philadelphia one Sunday. The place was closed. — W.C. Fields
• To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them with impunity. — Duc François La Rochefoucauld
• It is not a novel to be thrown aside lightly. It should be thrown aside with great force. — Dorothy Parker in a book review
• No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney. — Alfred E. Smith in a campaign speech in 1936
• I am just going to pray for you at St. Paul's [Cathedral], but with no very lively hope of success.— Rev. Sydney Smith