Ahh… these were the days...
When Insults Had Class
These glorious insults are from an era
before the English language
got boiled down to 4-letter words.
The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
She said,
"If you were my husband I'd give you poison."
He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
A member of Parliament to Disraeli:
"Sir, you will either die on the gallows
or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli,
"whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
He has had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr
"He has all the virtues I dislike
and none of the vices I admire." - 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).
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book;
I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas
"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
"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 lamp-posts...
for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening.
But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
'the truth iS a hard-swallow"
- Susan /THE eXchanger
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