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dover

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When Insults Had Class… These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.

 

The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:

She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison."

He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

 

 

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 to run 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

 

"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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Here's to a 1000 more pages of absolute incoherent babbling........ :banana:

 

:cloud9:

 

:roflmao:

 

:banana:

 

:kidaround:

 

Dover............your reply above was the 10,000th reply to this thread!

 

I and the entire board wish to congratulate you on this feat.

 

 

Your prize is 1 insane smiley, be careful, he might bit (but only if he chooses to, he is insane)

 

Here you go

 

-----------------------------------------> :insane:

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