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Literary Insults

Post by Doreen Peri » February 21st, 2005, 12:15 am

(i posted these before in general discussion but that was before you had this forum, gloriousOne... thought you'd get a kick out of these here... someone sent them to me by email a while back ;))

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"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." -Stephen Bishop

"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

"His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open." -Howard Hughes (about Clark Gable)

"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 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

"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

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" -MarkTwain

"A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity." -Mark Twain

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." -MarkTwain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." -Mae West

"She is a peacock in everything but beauty." -Oscar Wilde

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."-Oscar Wilde

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." -Oscar Wilde

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." -Billy Wilder

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination" -Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

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Post by bennie » February 21st, 2005, 11:38 am

More churchill:

"the americans will always do the right thing...after they have exhausted all the alternatives."

Nancy Astor: "If I were your wife, I'd put poison in your cofee."
Churchill: "If I were your husband, I'd drink it."

Nancy Astor: "Mr Churchill, you're drunk!"
Churchill: "Yes, and you, madam, are ugly. But, tomorrow I shall be sober."
well I write music review so I do:
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