when insults had class

shrapnel222 · 24-08-2007 12:15pm #1

> A member of Parliament to 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 had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr
>

> "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)
>

> "He can compress the 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, 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 Keatin
>

>"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