Tink sent me these:
When 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 to Shaw:
"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
I love these!
Much better than today's well known epithets like 'yo mama'.
yo mama
Posted by: wRitErsbLock at November 28, 2007 08:27 AMI loved these. It is hard to pick a favorite, but I think it is a tie between Groucho Marx and William Faulkner. Churchill was no slouch.
Posted by: bob agard at November 28, 2007 06:32 PMI love these!
Posted by: cynthia at November 28, 2007 10:25 PMLOL! Yup, this has GOT to go on my Around The Blogosphere Post this week! Thanks for the laughs!
Posted by: Lemon Stand at November 29, 2007 02:57 PMJust wanted to let you know I DID link your post for my Around The Blogosphere post
Posted by: Lemon Stand at December 2, 2007 11:14 AM.... some of those were GREAT.... thanks for the laugh...
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