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Bluemoon
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posted June 26, 2007 11:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Bluemoon     Edit/Delete Message
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." --
Winston Churchill
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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." -- Clarence Darrow
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"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the
dictionary." -- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
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"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." --
Groucho Marx
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"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." -- Mark Twain
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"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." --
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." -- George Bernard Shaw to Winston
Churchill...followed by:
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Churchill's response: "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend
second, if there is one."


"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." -- Stephen Bishop
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"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." -- John Bright
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"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." -- Irvin S. Cobb
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"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." -- Samuel Johnson
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"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." -- Paul Keating
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"He had delusions of adequacy." -- Walter Kerr
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"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" --
Mark Twain
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"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

Lady Astor once remarked to Winston Churchill at a Dinner Party, "Winston, if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee!"
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> Winston replied, "Madam if I were your husband I would drink it!"

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miss_muffet
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posted June 26, 2007 11:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for miss_muffet     Edit/Delete Message
Wow... I love this! Thank you for sharing.

quote:
Lady Astor once remarked to Winston Churchill at a Dinner Party, "Winston, if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee!"

Winston replied, "Madam if I were your husband I would drink it!"


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lovegoblin
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posted June 26, 2007 12:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for lovegoblin     Edit/Delete Message
winston churchill
what a character.
i love him.

i've heard variations of the above story.
one was a woman in dismay telling churchill
"winston, you're drunk!"

his reply: "yes madame, and in the morning i will be sober, but you will still be ugly."

this is attributed to him anyway...

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lalalinda
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posted June 26, 2007 12:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for lalalinda     Edit/Delete Message
quote:

"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...followed by:

Churchill's response: "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend
second, if there is one."


touché

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ListensToTrees
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posted June 26, 2007 01:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ListensToTrees     Edit/Delete Message
From Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

Mr Pecksniff:
"Charity, when I take my bedside candle tonight, remind me to pay particular attention in my prayers to Mr JONAS Chuzzlewit"

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Azalaksh
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posted June 26, 2007 01:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Azalaksh     Edit/Delete Message
BlueMoon
Those quotes are soooo much more intelligent and enjoyable than "epithet-you", although "epithet-you" certainly has its time and place

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Mirandee
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posted June 26, 2007 01:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mirandee     Edit/Delete Message

Love it!!! LOL Wonderful to have that kind of quick wit!!

Churchill and Pres. Harry Truman were both quick on the uptake.

Bill Hicks was too!!!

He did a skit on Jesus at a nightclub in the south. Afterwards two guys approached him and one of them was poking him in the chest with each word saying, " We are Christian and we don't like the things you said about Jesus."

Bill Hicks: " Oh, you're Christians! In that case just forgive me."

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Bluemoon
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posted June 26, 2007 07:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Bluemoon     Edit/Delete Message

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