A slight for every occasion
‘He can brighten a room just by leaving it’
Various attributions, including politician Lord Lilley on Gordon Brown
‘What exactly is on your mind—if you’ll excuse the exaggeration?’
American television presenter David Letterman
‘A face unclouded by thought’
Said of actress Norma Shearer by American playwright Lillian Hellman
‘I have had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it’
Groucho Marx
‘The tartness
