Classy, Sophisticated Insults & Put-Downs

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D. Spencer Hines

Classy, Sophisticated Insults & Put-Downs

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 15 okt 2007 01:04:53

Courtesy of Leo van de Pas in SGM.

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Deus Vult
------------------------------------------------------

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." --
Winston Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." -- 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)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
-- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time
reading it." -- Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I
know." -- Abraham Lincoln

"I've had a 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, 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

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." --
Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." -- Paul Keating

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

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -- Jack E.
Leonard

"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." -- Robert Redford

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human
knowledge." -- Thomas Brackett Reed

"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent
hard work, he overcame them." - James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." -- Bette Midler

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on
t?" -- 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 has Van Gogh's ear for music." -- Billy Wilder

Jack Linthicum

Re: Classy, Sophisticated Insults & Put-Downs

Legg inn av Jack Linthicum » 15 okt 2007 13:35:01

On Oct 14, 8:04 pm, "D. Spencer Hines" <pant...@excelsior.com> wrote:
Courtesy of Leo van de Pas in SGM.

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Deus Vult
------------------------------------------------------

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." --
Winston Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." -- 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)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
-- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time
reading it." -- Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I
know." -- Abraham Lincoln

"I've had a 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, 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

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." --
Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." -- Paul Keating

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

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -- Jack E.
Leonard

"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." -- Robert Redford

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human
knowledge." -- Thomas Brackett Reed

"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent
hard work, he overcame them." - James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." -- Bette Midler

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on
t?" -- 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 has Van Gogh's ear for music." -- Billy Wilder

Note "classy" and "sophisticated" and "put-downs" are inharmonious
terms

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