Irving Babbitt
American academic and literary critic (1865-1933)
Alan Corenwas an English humourist, writer and satirist who was a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television’s Call My Bluff. Coren was also a journalist, and for almost a decade was the editor of Punch magazine.
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Alan Corenwas an English humourist, writer and satirist who was a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television’s Call My Bluff. Coren was also a journalist, and for almost a decade was the editor of Punch magazine.
5 Quotes by Alan Coren
- 1.
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Corenhumorist and writer from the United Kingdom
- 2.
I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
Alan Corenhumorist and writer from the United Kingdom
- 3.
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
Alan Corenhumorist and writer from the United Kingdom
- 4.
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
Alan Corenhumorist and writer from the United Kingdom
- 5.
Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
Alan Corenhumorist and writer from the United Kingdom