[BJEmail] When Insults Had Class

>    “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  (oooh, i know this guy)…..
>   
>    “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
>   
>    “Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there

> is one.” — Winston Churchill, in response
>  
>  “I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.”
> — Stephen Bishop
>  
>  “He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”
> — John Bright
> 
> “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
> 
> “He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.” — Paul 
> Keating
>   
>    “He had delusions of adequacy.” — Walter Kerr
>  
>  “There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.” —
> Jack  E. Leonard
> 
> “He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.” — Robert Redford
> 
> “They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of 
> human knowledge.” — Thomas Brackett Reed
>   
>    “He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by

> diligent hard work, he overcame them.” — James Reston (about Richard
> Nixon)
> 
> “In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.” 
> — Charles, Count Talleyrand
> 
> “He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” — Forrest Tucker
> 
> “Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on
> it?” — Mark Twain
>   
>    “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
>   
>    “He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts… for support
> rather than illumination.”
> — Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
>   
>    “He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.” — Billy Wilder

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