[SOC] When insults had class

[Kevin Rock]

"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)  

"I've hada perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
   -- Groucho Marx

"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's 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

"He had delusions of adequacy."
   -- Walter Kerr

"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

"Winston, if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee!"
   --Lady Astor to Winston Churchill at a dinner party

"Madam, if I were your husband, I would drink it!"
   -- Winston Churchill, in response 

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
   -- Oscar Wilde