When Insults Had Class...
"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
-- Winston Churchill
"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'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
"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
"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 simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
-- Paul Keating
"He had delusions of adequacy."
-- Walter Kerr
"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt."
-- Robert Redford
"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
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
-- Mark Twain
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
-- Oscar Wilde
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
-- Billy Wilder
-- Michael Pugliese