!!When Insults Had Class * "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 * "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 * "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 had delusions of adequacy." -- Walter Kerr * "He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." -- Robert Redford * "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon) * "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." -- Charles, Count Talleyrand * "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." -- Forrest Tucker * "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