These glorious insults
> >are from an era when cleverness with words was still valued, before a
> >great portion of the English language got boiled down to 4-letter
> >words, not to mention waving middle fingers.
> >
> >
> >
> >The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my
> >husband I'd give you poison," and he said, "If you were my wife, I'd
> >drink it."
> >
> >
> >
> >A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the
> >gallows or of some unspeakable disease." "That depends, Sir," said
> >Disraeli, "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)
> >
> >
> >
> >"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 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
> >
> >
> >
> > "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
> >
> >
> >
> >"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