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When Insults had Class...
« on: December 22, 2007, 11:23:17 AM »
 
  "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'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
 
   "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
   - Winston Churchill, in reply

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Re: When Insults had Class...
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2007, 11:38:13 AM »
 ;D ;D ;D
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Re: When Insults had Class...
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2007, 01:35:19 PM »
Excellent!

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Re: When Insults had Class...
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2007, 02:07:14 AM »
A couple of Winstons other classics:

Lady Astor: "Mr. Churchill, you're drunk!"
Winston Churchill: "Yes, and you, Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow, I
shall be sober."

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
--Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
-- His reply

 :D :D

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Re: When Insults had Class...
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2007, 03:32:44 AM »
I have a book somewhere full of this sort of thing :)

The exchanges between Churchill and Nancy Astor were both numerous and legendary ;D
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Re: When Insults had Class...
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2008, 10:54:03 PM »
those are great. actually made me laugh a bit.

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Re: When Insults had Class...
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2008, 06:41:41 AM »
A couple of Winstons other classics:

Lady Astor: "Mr. Churchill, you're drunk!"
Winston Churchill: "Yes, and you, Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow, I
shall be sober."

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
--Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
-- His reply

 :D :D
I love this kind of stuff, keep 'em coming!

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Re: When Insults had Class...
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2008, 04:35:00 AM »
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease." "That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "on whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr

"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

"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

"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

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening.  But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx



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