Fw: Glorious Insults

Glorious insults are from an era before the English language became boiled down to 4-letter words.


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 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.