Well turned insults
Unfortunately, with the decline of literacy in our population, we are losing the ability to insult persons properly, as in the following quotations below.
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. (Clerence Darrow)
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. (William Faulkner, about Ernest Hemingway)
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 smalles idea of any man I know. (Abraham Lincoln)
I´ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it. (Groucho Marx)
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 Bernhard Shaw to Winston Churchill)
Cannot possibly attend the first night, will attend second… if there is one. (Winston Churchill, in response)
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)
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)
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