insults are from an era when cleverness with words was still valued,
before a great portion of the English language was boiled down to
four-letter words!
The exchange between Churchill and Lady Astor: She said, "If you were
my husband, I'd put poison in your tea," and he said, "If you were my
wife, I'd drink it.""
Gladstone, a member of Parliament, to Benjamin Disraeli: "Sir, you
will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease." "That
depends, sir,"said Disraeli,"On whether I embrace your policies or
your mistress".
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." -
Winston Churchill
"He is a modest little person, with much to be modest about." -
Winston Churchill
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with
great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to
the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time
reading it." - Moses Hadas "He can compress most words into the
smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I
approved of it." - Mark Twain
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring
a friend....if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night but I will be able to attend the
second night...... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response
"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
- Stephen Bishop
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing
trivial." Irvin S. Cobb
"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
- Samuel Johnson
" He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating
"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure" - Jack
E.Leonard
"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." - Robert Redford
"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of
human knowledge." - Thomas Brackett Reed
"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
- Charles, Count Talleyrand
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on
it?" - Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. - Mae West
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." -
Oscar Wilde
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...for support
rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
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