“Miss Management”
A tag applied by MP Deb Grey to Minister Jane Stewart over the Human Resources Development Canada scandal , quoted by Susan Riley in Ottawa Citizen November 21, 2004
“Someone once defined ‘committee’ as a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.”
A writer whose name I did not record in Chronicles magazine December 1990
“Paranoia: It could be sneaking up on you!”
Another of my own would-be witticisms, from January 2nd 1999.
Praises tobacco that “does not make me wish my mouth was in a different country the next day.”
Morton Flayer in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 3 #3 (December 1999)
“Beulah, peel me a grape!”
Mae West in I’m No Angel, quoted in Esprit de Corps Vol. 9 #2 (Dec. 2001) (see also https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024166/trivia)
“You’re so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece.”
Gunnery Sargeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket]
“truthache”
Something a mirror can cause according to Walter Winchell, quoted in The New Republic November 5, 1990
“He is a modest man, with a great deal to be modest about.”
Winston Churchill about Clement Attlee, quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things April 2002