Jean Cocteau, poet, artist, film-maker and all round brilliant wit died today in 1963. Of all the cool things he ever said, my favourite must be 'Tact consists in knowing how far we may go too far.'
Ain't it the truth?
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And talking of wits and great lines, how about this today in 1991 from Auberon Waugh (whom I actually met once) - 'Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed but they can never forgive being ignored.'
Takes one to know one, Aub!
