
“I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.”
George Bernard Shaw on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize (1930)
Flying Dutch (1991)
“I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.”
George Bernard Shaw on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize (1930)
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1988/mar/21/budget-resolutions-and-economic-situation in the House of Commons (21 March 1988)
“That’s kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so OK.”
Variant: That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay.
Source: Glass Houses
"The Jelly-Bean"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
"Lord Bacon", (1837) in Essays 2:183
Attributed