Posted on 08/06/2006 4:28:00 AM PDT by 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.
Top of the morning to you. Found this in my in box this morning.
Good stuff. There must be a collection of much more of these luscious tidbits somewhere all in one place? Non?
BTTT ;-)
I found cereal in my box. I enjoyed the cereal.
Yes, I think we all enjoyed it....thanks for the post
"I am sitting in the smallest room in my house with your letter in front of me. Soon it will be behind me."
(think...)
I, too, have read a few obits with great pleasure.
Such delightful wit....Sadly, most of today's standup "comedians" come up short.
LOL!
Any insult by Shaw should be taken as a compliment. Great comeback by Churchill, though.
Google shows this.
That was a playwright who said of a drama critic who had panned his latest production,
"I have your review in front of me. In a moment it will be behind me."
If not Shaw, may have been Alec Woollcott.
-Eric
Your initials are those of my wife. But I know you are not she since I can hear her out in the kitchen making coffee. (How anybody can drink that foul fluid is beyond me. Yuk.)
'You, Sir! Will die either of Insanity or an Unspeakable Disease!'
"That, Sir, depends upon whether I embrace your policies- or your mistress..."
bttt
Lady Nancy Astor: "Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee." Winston Churchill: "Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it."
:D
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