
“I'm a minor, stupid talent compared to my brother”
Joaquin
Mademoiselle (1993)
Source: Almost Perfect
“I'm a minor, stupid talent compared to my brother”
Joaquin
Mademoiselle (1993)
Raise Your Glass, written by Pink, Max Martin, and Shellback
Song lyrics, Greatest Hits... So Far!!! (2010)
On Mr. John Fletcher's Works. Compare: "Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill", Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Prologues (republished in Dramatic Works, 1739); "Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne", Alexander Pope, Prologue to the Satires, line 197.
An Open Letter (1983), p. 9.
Objecting to his inclusion in The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry.
Other Quotes
“The obstacle has been Mackenzie King, the Canadian, who is both obstinate, tiresome and stupid.”
Source: Letter to his wife during the 1923 Imperial Conference (8 November 1923), quoted in Terry Reardon, Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King: So Similar, So Different (2012), pp. 52-53
pg. 363
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Wassail
“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”
16 August 1925
Enough Rope (1926)
“Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.”
"The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism", a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921
“Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.”