WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS \

[Gypsy]

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> "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
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> -- Winston Churchill
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> "A modest little person, with much to be modest about"
>
> -- Winston Churchill
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> "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great
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> pleasure."
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> -- Clarence Darrow
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> "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the
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> dictionary."
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> -- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
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> "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big
> words?"
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> -- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
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> "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I
> know."
>
> -- Abraham Lincoln
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> "I''ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn''t it." --
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> Groucho Marx
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> "I didn''t attend the funeral , but I sent a nice letter saying I
> approved of
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> it."
>
> -- Mark Twain
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> "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." --
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> Oscar Wilde
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> "I enclose two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a
> friend...
>
> if you have one."
>
> -- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
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>
> "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is
> one."
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> -- Winston Churchill, in response.
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> "He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
>
> -- John Bright
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> "I''ve just learned about his illness. Let''s hope it''s nothing
> trivial."
>
> -- Irvin S. Cobb
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> "He has Van Gogh''s ear for music."
>
> -- Billy Wilder
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> "He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
>
> -- Samuel Johnson
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> "He had delusions of adequacy."
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> -- Walter Kerr
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> "There''s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won''t cure." --
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> Jack E. Leonard
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> "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of
> human
>
> knowledge."
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> -- Thomas Brackett Reed
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> "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
>
> -- Charles Count Talleyrand
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> "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
>
> -- Forrest Tucker
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> "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on
> it?"
>
> -- Mark Twain
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> "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
>
> -- Mae West

 

[CrookedRock]

Those are great! I really love "I''ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But, this wasn''t it." I think I might have to use that one... Funny post!!

 

[Love in Bloom]

That gave me a really great giggle

Thanks Gypsy!

 

[iheartscience]

Hahaha-I love these, especially the Winston Churchill ones-ouch!

 

[dianne]

I really enjoyed this post. I love a good zinger!!

 

[strmrdr]

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if I were your wife, I''d poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I''d drink it.

Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.

Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?
Socialite: My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course...
Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five pounds?
Socialite: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!
Churchill: Madam, we''ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

 

[Miranda]

LOL! Those are great!

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

I loved those Gypsy.....

One of my faves comes from a comic strip character....Pig Pen (Peanuts)...you know how he was always being insulted b/c of his "dirt/dust";

"You are disgusting Pig Pen" (curly haired girl ??); to which he retorted:

"Frankly, I didn''t think I looked that good". (Pig Pen).

cheers--Sharon

 

[Fancy605]

I love it! Oh, intelligent humor, where have you vanished too?

 

[monarch64]

"he is a self-made man and worships his creator" is my favorite! These are all great!

 

[Pandora II]

Lol, some of my favourites there.

I''m a huge "Private Eye" fan, it was the reason I really left Italy - I couldn''t find a man who read PE and found it funny. decided I couldn''t stand a life with no intellectual humour...

 

[Ellen]

Love them, strms too! Especially the one about him being sober in the morning. OUCH

One of my all time faves.