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Classy insults
iank - 3/3/07 at 06:05 PM

"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

"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr

"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

"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

"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


bebot - 3/3/07 at 06:36 PM

What about,

You Joey.....Any Kid at school in the 80's

Now i'm showing my age.


scottc - 3/3/07 at 07:12 PM

quote:
Originally posted by bebot

You Joey.....


Not really in the same league as

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved
of it." - Mark Twain


iank - 3/3/07 at 07:12 PM

quote:
Originally posted by bebot
What about,

You Joey.....Any Kid at school in the 80's

Now i'm showing my age.


Classy indeed


Chippy - 3/3/07 at 11:36 PM

My favourite Winston one was when told by a lady he was drunk replied "Madam you are ugly, but I shall be sober in the morning" priceless. Ray


Simon - 4/3/07 at 12:06 AM

quote:
Originally posted by scottc

Not really in the same league as

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved
of it." - Mark Twain


One of my old MD's died a few years ago, and one of the blokes in another department asked one of the guys from my dept why he didn't go to the funeral. His response:

"I'd have thrown another log on the fire!"



ATB

Simon