[BITList] English language Quotes

[franka]

These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got 
boiled down to 4-letter words
frank




A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the 
gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or 
your mistress."

"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr

"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).

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book;  I'll waste no time 
reading it." - Moses Hadas

"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

"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 torun up." - Paul Keating

"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

"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
"The unspeakable chasing the inedible" - also Oscar Wilde, //I think//, 
about fox hunting.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support 
rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening.  But this wasn't it." - Groucho 
Marx




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