When Insults Had Class

[Hedgehog]

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 poison your tea."
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 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

[Fubar]

Your right.....those are brilliant.

I didn't know Churchill had such wit!!

TTFN Matt

[Compass Rose]

It's hard to beat Groucho Marx !

[Weasel]

I like Bishop's the best.