When Insults Had Class
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“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
— Winston Churchill
“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 the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.”
— Abraham Lincoln“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.”
— Groucho Marx“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, will attend second… 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“He had delusions of adequacy.”
— Walter Kerr“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“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.”
— James Reston (about Richard Nixon)“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
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