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Offline RevDoc

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Insults, When They Had Class
« on: July 30, 2016, 06:19:17 AM »
"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."

"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
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Offline Buckskin Bandit

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Re: Insults, When They Had Class
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2016, 07:58:29 AM »
Those are funny!  ;D
Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down!

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Re: Insults, When They Had Class
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2016, 11:36:34 AM »
Lady Astor to Churchill "Winston, if you were my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison"
Churchill: "Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it"

Bessie Braddock to Churchill "Winston, you're drunk!"
Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly, and tomorrow morning I shall be sober"

Wife: "I look fat. Can you give me a compliment?" Husband: "You have perfect eyesight."
« Last Edit: July 31, 2016, 11:43:13 AM by ewanhughes »
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Re: Insults, When They Had Class
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2016, 04:55:23 PM »
Twain and Churchill were definitely two of the best... Thanks for the laughs RD...Larry

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Re: Insults, When They Had Class
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2016, 04:04:46 AM »
"Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about."

W.S. Churchill

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Re: Insults, When They Had Class
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2016, 08:46:48 AM »
“No one,” Tony Abbott told a Melbourne gathering of Liberal Party faithful, “however smart, however well-educated, however experienced … is the suppository of all wisdom”.
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