When Insults had class

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When Even Insults Had Class...

"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)

"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...followed by

Churchill's response: "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there is one."

*-- Winston Churchill*

"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

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

*-- Oscar Wilde*