“I would say, ‘Is there anything I can do?’—but Skip once told me that that was the most hateful and stupid expression in the English language.”

Source: Girl, Interrupted

Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 1: Predicament, Ch. 3: The Challenge to the Mandarins (p. 17-18)
Context: The Mandarin style at its best yields the richest and most complete expression of the English language. It is the diction of Donne, Browne, Addison, Johnson, Gibbon, de Quincey, Landor, Carlyle and Ruskin as opposed to that of Bunyan, Dryden, Locke, Defoe, Cowper, Cobbett, Hazlitt, Southey and Newman. It is characterized by long sentences with many dependent clauses, by the use of the subjunctive and conditional, by exclamations and interjections, quotations, allusions, metaphors, long images, Latin terminology, subtlety and conceits. Its cardinal assumption is that neither the writer nor the reader is in a hurry, that both are possessed of a classical education and a private income. It is Ciceronian English.

Variant: I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
Source: Something Borrowed

As quoted in the article 'End of an Era?' in Live and Kicking magazine (2000)

Source: Closer

A "tweet" by John Cleese on his @JohnCleese [verified] Twitter account, 4 Apr 2017

Lauri v. Renad (1892), L. R. 3 C. D. [1892], p. 413.

Source: City of Heavenly Fire