William F. Buckley Jr. Quotes

If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Who can refute a sneer?

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.

I don't throw shade at anybody like, 'You sound like me.'

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

You're so full of it, darlin'.

Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Well, excuuuuuse me!

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.