Quotes by Parodists

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
Max Beerbohm
Some people are born to lift heavy weights some are born to juggle golden balls.
Max Beerbohm
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
Max Beerbohm
I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've gotCould see all kinds of things other people could not!So then why get upset if somebody like meTries to look at the world just a bit differently?
Al Yankovic
Humility is a virtue and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
Max Beerbohm
I'm an ugly girl,My face makes you hurl,Sad I have it, I should bag it.Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair.I'm a relation to Frankenstein's creation.
Al Yankovic
Why of course it's unlikely!' I said. 'Oh, by far!The awesome-est things in the world often are!
Al Yankovic
I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.
Max Beerbohm
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Max Beerbohm
The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Max Beerbohm
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual for what the gods had given him.
Max Beerbohm
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Max Beerbohm
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm