A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. "-Louis Nizer
"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
-Stephen Bishop
"He is a self-made man & worships his creator." - John Bright
"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've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb
"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)
"He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his
soul."
-David Lloyd George
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time
reading it."
- Moses Hadas
"His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open."
- Howard Hughes (about Clark Gable)
"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
"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."
--Jack E. Leonard
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I
know."
- Abraham Lincoln
"You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad
to
get rid of it."
- Groucho Marx
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx
"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)
"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
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on
it?"
- Mark Twain
"A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he
was
waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity."
- Mark Twain
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I
approved
of it."
- Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
- Mae West
"She is a peacock in everything but beauty."
- Oscar Wilde
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they
go."
-Oscar Wilde
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
- Oscar Wilde
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
- Billy Wilder
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support
rather than illumination."
- Andrew Lang (1844-1912
