Operation Earnest

Famous quotes containing the words operation and/or earnest:

“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of “Wut,” is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

“What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)