Jackanapes Quotes

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't. (Jonathan Raban)
You look like any other brainless jackanapes,” he mused, "but apparently there's some gray matter left in your artfully coiffed skull after all. View quote
Algis Budrys
A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha. View quote
William Shakespeare