WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS

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[SLB]

"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

"I cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... If there is one." - Winston Churchill, in reply.

[kassie]

LOL

[kassie]

These are great, thanks.

[kabar]

LOL.

[outofsalt]

Take the challenge... almost 30 years apart and you will be amused. I never said I didn't like his work but, if you look at these two movies, back to back, you'll get a giggle

[Bonaparte]

That was Hill and Disraeli in Commons. It's an extreme abbreviation of their two speeches.

[SunkenCiv]

http://flashbackmiami.com/2015/01/02/winston-churchill-visits-miami/

https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/having-chat-churchills-parrot-114-13642592

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4985813/Parrot-pictured-with-Winston-Churchill-still-drawing-a-crowd-after-67-years.html

Parrot pictured with Winston Churchill still drawing a crowd after 67 years

https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01365/parrot_1365876c.jpg

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 08/06/2006. Thanks SLB.

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year.

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• Michael Savage To Trump: 'You're The Winston Churchill Of Our Time' [2015]

[morphing libertarian]

Legendary USC football coach John McKay circa 1969. What did you think of your teams execution. I think it’s good idea. (after being upset).

[colorado tanker]

Wish the parrot could remember more, such as comments on Stalin, Roosevelt or DeGaulle. I bet Winnie had some choice things to say about le grand Charles.

[oldvirginian]

Git-English
An unpleasant or contemptible person.

[SamAdams76]

Love Winston Churchill. These are all great.

[BradyLS]

Given that it’s a British saying, I always took it to mean that a ‘git’ was a form of ‘get’—‘one who was begotten.’ A person. A ‘stupid git’ is simply a stupid person, but sounds so much worse.

[oldvirginian]

“One from my father: “If you had another brain it would rattle.”

Or as an uncle used to say “a brain in that boy’s head would amount to a BB in a boxcar”.

[oldvirginian]

If you grew up in the old south the worst thing someone could say to you was “well bless your heart”.
If you heard that you knew their estimation of you was lower than a snakes belly in a wagon rut.
Folks didn’t even say that to/about the town idiot.

It served purpose as a humiliating put down as well as an expression of heartfelt pity.
Context was everything.

[BradyLS]

Join the Lazamataz wing of the party. No shortage of action there!

[Larry Lucido]

Wow, this thread takes me back. Okay, here are a few.

[Larry Lucido]

[elcid1970]

Churchill about a pompous, self-important Minister as he swept past him in the halls of Parliament:

“There, but for the grace of God....goes God!”

[Tallguy]

What? No Lady Astor/Churchill insults?

[Mr. Jeeves]

It was composer Erik Satie, replying to a critic:

"I am sitting in the smallest room in the house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me."