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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 778350" data-attributes="member: 1246">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 Winston 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 Benjamin 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 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  §        "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</blockquote>

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