20 Quotes by Stephen Potter

Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better.

Yes, but not in the South', with slight adjustments, will do for any arguments about any place, if not about any person.

The theory and practice of gamesmanship orThe art of winning games without actually cheating.

I'm looking for the therapy crowd and the low-impact aerobics crowd. It's an alternative to a gym. There's no membership.

If your friend says of some picture, "Yes, but what does it mean?" ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes

If your friend says of some picture, ""Yes, but what does it mean?"" ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes

How to be one up - how to make the other man feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly.

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.

In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself a considerable name without ever actually having won a single game. Even the best players are sometimes beaten, and that is precisely what happens to me.