When Insults Had Class
Aug 31, 2007 6:58:42 GMT -5
Post by 🍁 CDN 🍁 on Aug 31, 2007 6:58:42 GMT -5
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 didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
"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 which was followed by Churchill's response:
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there is one." - Winston Churchill
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain
"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."- Stephen Bishop
"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright
"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating
"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
"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
"If I were your wife, I would put poison in your coffee." - Lady Astor (to Winston Churchill):
Winston Churchill (in reply): "And if I were your husband, I would drink it."
"Everyone who enters here brings happiness - some by their coming -some by their leaving."
- on the wall of a Pub in Ireland
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 didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
"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 which was followed by Churchill's response:
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there is one." - Winston Churchill
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain
"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."- Stephen Bishop
"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright
"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating
"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
"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
"If I were your wife, I would put poison in your coffee." - Lady Astor (to Winston Churchill):
Winston Churchill (in reply): "And if I were your husband, I would drink it."
"Everyone who enters here brings happiness - some by their coming -some by their leaving."
- on the wall of a Pub in Ireland
.. lets go Big Boy !!!! 
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and besides it was Friday ... 