JR On WSDR--When Insults Had Class

JR On WSDR--Miscellany

When Insults Had Class--Serge

"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

"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

"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 reply