"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 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
"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
"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
"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)
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