When insults were classy

Thanks to Trudi for these laughs!!


I really chuckled at such clever use of words. Hope you see the same.
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> These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got
> boiled down to 4-letter words.
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> "He had delusions of adequacy."
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> - Walter Kerr
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> "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
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> - Winston Churchill
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> "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with
> great pleasure."
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> - Clarence Darrow
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> "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to
> the dictionary."
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> - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
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> 'Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big
> words?'
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> - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
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> "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time
> reading it."
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> - Moses Hadas
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> "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I
> approved of it."
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> - Mark Twain
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> "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
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> - Oscar Wilde
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> "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring
> a friend.... if you have one."
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> - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
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> "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there
> is one." - - Winston Churchill, in response.
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> "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
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> - Stephen Bishop
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> "He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
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> - John Bright
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> "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing
> trivial."
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> - Irvin S. Cobb
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> "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
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> - Samuel Johnson
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> "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
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> - Paul Keating
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> "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
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> - Charles, Count Talleyrand
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> "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.."
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> - Forrest Tucker
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> "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address
> on it?"
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> - Mark Twain
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> "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
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> - Mae West
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> "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
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> - Oscar Wilde
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> "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for
> support rather than illumination."
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> - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
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> "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening.. But this wasn't it."
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> - Groucho Marx
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> 'There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.'
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> - Jack E. Leonard
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> 'He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.'
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> - Robert Redford
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> 'They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of
> human knowledge.'
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> - Thomas Brackett Reed
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> 'He has Van Gogh's ear for music.'
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> - Billy Wilder
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> 'He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I
> know.'
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> - Abraham Lincoln
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> 'A modest little person, with much to be modest about. '
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> - Winston Churchill
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> A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on
> the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
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> "That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies
> or your mistress."
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> The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
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> She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison."
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> He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
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