Edmund Clerihew Bentley

“I will not have my intelligence insulted. I happen to be a very clever fellow. I am quoting from my last press notice.”

“Sir Christopher Wren / Said, 'I am going to dine with some men. / If anyone calls, / Say I am designing St. Paul's.'”

“John Stuart Mill, / By a mighty effort of will, / Overcame his natural bonhomie / And wrote 'Principles of Political Economy.'”

“The horse is a noble beast, but he is not so clever as a man. He is also diligent, but he cannot write sonnets.”

“Sir Christopher Wren said, 'I am going to dine with some men. If anyone calls, say I am designing St. Paul's.'”

“George the Third ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder at so grotesque a blunder.”