Jackanapes Quotes

#1. A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

William Shakespeare

#2. You looked like a half-literate moron in that letter, like an anti-intellectual jackanapes trying to stampede his way into power with all the finesse of a lovestruck buffalo.

Patrick Ness

#3. Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Jonathan Raban

#4. The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it's easy for me to travel.

JR

#5. God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

Addison Mizner

#6. When I wrote 'Marvin Gaye,' my whole intention was to make a record that people would put on a record player ... and just instantly make out with each other.

Charlie Puth

#7. All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

Delmore Schwartz

#8. We know the ideal isn't where the action is.

Joseph Epstein