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.

[Psycho_Bunny]

"People who enjoyed a merely superficial acquaintance with my nephew Archibald were accustomed to set him down as just an ordinary pinheaded young man. It was only when they came to know him better that they discovered their mistake. Then they realized that his pinheadedness, so far from being ordinary, was exceptional. Even at the Drones Club, where the average intellect is hot high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers."

P.G. Wodehouse.  Fiction, but one of my favorites.

 

[Carolinamom]

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde

[Northern Yankee]

LOL...

I like it!

[don-o]

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
H. L. Mencken

[ArGee]

I once met a friend of my grandfather who told me "Your grandfather said you were a real wit. I see he was half right."

Shalom.

[SLB]

My dad was aWill Rogers fan. He met him once on the rodeo circuit and left me a large collection of Will Rogers prints.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924),

[Loud Mime]

Actually, Vinnie Barbarino was brilliantly played by John Travolta. He had to play an uneducated, self centered buffoon whose knowledge was short on content and long on delivery. Travolta took that acting job to heart, and so well that he continues to this day.

[appeal2]

Yes, my personal favorite, Dr. Johnson on second marriages, "The triumph of hope over experience."

[VadeRetro]

That's not good acting. That's good casting.

[Cincinatus]

"The triumph of hope over experience."

That also describes the game of golf.

[Little Bill]

He would not allow Scotland to derive any credit from Lord Mansfield; for he was educated in England. "Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.", Dr.Johnson

[appeal2]

He is a man of finite talents.


He is a legend in his own mind.


There's a lot less here than meets the eye.

[Loud Mime]

A walk in the seas of his knowledge will scarcely get your feet wet.

Basil Fawlty to his wife: If you would make use of that dormant organ you keep hiddin within that rat's nest (points to her overly-styled hair).....

[Jackknife]

Over here .....

[ops33]

Of all the insults I have read on this post, that's the worse! I think I've seen her a couple of times in bars, dances, parties, etc.

[Loud Mime]

The only experience this man has had with stage and screen was when his leg was in a cast.

[kitkat]

Dorothy Parker and a young actress both approached a doorway at the same moment. The actress stepped back and said to Parker, "Age before beauty."

Parker sailed through the door saying, "Pearls before swine."

[Ditter]

Fantastic! Thanks!

[Carolinamom]

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. -Dorothy Parker

I am not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? -James Thurber

[don-o]

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