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When Insults Had Class

I found these via digg on another site and had to share them with you here… enjoy! “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

— 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)

“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’s response to George Bernard Shaw

“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

“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

“Winston, if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee!

— Lady Astor to Winston Churchill at a dinner party

“Madam, if I were your husband, I would drink it!

— Winston Churchill’s response to Lady Astor

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.

— Moses Hadas

“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

“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any one I know.

— Abraham Lincoln

“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

— Mae West

“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

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

— Oscar Wilde

“You, Mr. Wilkes, will die either of the pox or on the gallows.

— The Earl of Sandwich

“That depends, my lord, whether I embrace your mistress or your principles.

— John Wilkes’s response to The Earl of Sandwich

“A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

— Winston Churchill