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Topic: When insults had class
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Bluemoon Knowflake Posts: 4456 From: Stafford, VA USA Registered: Feb 2005
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posted June 26, 2007 11:14 AM
"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 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...followed by: > 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 > "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
"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!" > > Winston replied, "Madam if I were your husband I would drink it!" IP: Logged |
miss_muffet Knowflake Posts: 832 From: Registered: Mar 2004
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posted June 26, 2007 11:26 AM
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 Knowflake Posts: 467 From: norfolk, virginia USA Registered: May 2006
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posted June 26, 2007 12:32 PM
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... IP: Logged |
lalalinda Moderator Posts: 3291 From: nevada Registered: Jun 2005
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posted June 26, 2007 12:41 PM
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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:Churchill's response: "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there is one."
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ListensToTrees Knowflake Posts: 3844 From: Infinity Registered: Jul 2005
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posted June 26, 2007 01:08 PM
From Charles Dickens, Martin ChuzzlewitMr Pecksniff: "Charity, when I take my bedside candle tonight, remind me to pay particular attention in my prayers to Mr JONAS Chuzzlewit" IP: Logged |
Azalaksh Knowflake Posts: 6485 From: New Brighton, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted June 26, 2007 01:09 PM
BlueMoon Those quotes are soooo much more intelligent and enjoyable than "epithet-you", although "epithet-you" certainly has its time and place IP: Logged |
Mirandee Knowflake Posts: 4812 From: South of the Thumb - Taurus, Pisces, Cancer Registered: Sep 2004
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posted June 26, 2007 01:48 PM
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." IP: Logged |
Bluemoon Knowflake Posts: 4456 From: Stafford, VA USA Registered: Feb 2005
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posted June 26, 2007 07:18 PM
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