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"More quotes from famous or infamous curmudgeons. I supply the quote; you pick the person."


1. "Convictions are greater enemies of truth than lies."
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    Simone Weil
    Soren Kierkegaard
    Sidney Hook


2. "A true friend stabs you in the front."
    Ambrose Bierce
    Oscar Wilde
    H.L. Mencken
    Dorothy Parker


3. "In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes."
    Donald Trump
    Andy Warhol
    Ozzie Osbourne
    Oliver North


4. "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
    P. T. Barnum
    Raymond Chandler
    H. L. Mencken
    Lenny Bruce


5. "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?"
    King George III
    Samuel Johnson
    Edmund Burke
    William Pitt


6. Who made the following critical assessment of Katherine Hepburn's performance in the play, "The Lake"? "Miss Hepburn ran the full gamut of emotions from a to b."
    Cornelia Otis Skinner
    Irving Thalberg
    Dorothy Parker
    Alexander Woolcott


7. "The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education."
    Ulysses Grant
    Robert E. Lee
    George Custer
    Dwight Eisenhower


8. Who was the papal legate who, during the Albigensian Crusade, when asked whether the Catholics in the city of Beziers should be spared, said, "Kill them all for the Lord knoweth them that are His"?
    Arnaud Amaury
    Thomas Beckett
    Giordano Bruno
    Tomas de Torquemada


9. "I am the state."
    Louis XIV
    Adolf Hitler
    Napoleon Buonaparte
    Ozymandias


10. When someone defended Clare Booth Luce by saying "She's so kind to her inferiors," this person replied, "Where does she find them?"
    Robert Sherwood
    Dawn Powell
    Robert Benchley
    Dorothy Parker


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