Famous quotes containing the words real and/or operation:
“Here come real stars to fill the upper skies,
And here on earth come emulating flies....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)