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As Rogovoy astutely writes, Harrison “was one of four, and if sometimes it was hard to get a word in edgewise when your bandmates were the wickedly outrageous John Lennon, the voluble Paul McCartney, and the affable Ringo Starr, Harrison made every word count. His wit was as quick and biting as Lennon's. He did not suffer fools gladly—by the evidence of his songs, he despised them.”

She could be very opinionated around the dinner table,” Ms Holland said who “wouldn’t suffer fools gladly”.

Former DUP leader Peter Robinson is a man who - ahem - does not suffer fools gladly.

This is a writer who does not suffer fools gladly — Raban’s nonfiction narrative engines practically glide forward on a road made from the bodies of people he has laid low with a droll aside.

She did not suffer fools gladly, and her opinions often pushed against the tide of medical orthodoxy.