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Quotes of our times

My view is that they [the banks] are partly to blame and there are people who feel remorse about this.

Sir Win Bischoff, chairman of Citigroup

[Note to Sir Win: Good use of the third person, impersonal.  "We don't know who these people are, but, by Jove, I swear they are out there!"]

For this season, all the big names embrace the pale and interesting pout.

– Susannah Frankel
, Fashion Columnist, The Independent

[Note to readers: Yes, I know.  My juxtaposition is not subtle.  But it is what I thought when I read it.]

NEXT! Resisting the ‘Press for Champagne’ button at the Soho It brasserie Bob Bob Richard.

The Sunday Times’ Style Magazine, 04 January 2009

[Clearly someone didn't get the memo.]

/df

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