I love a good insult. Maybe it’s a result of watching Don Rickles too much on the Tonight Show growing up. So I’d like to share some of my favorites. Winston Churchill, God love ‘im, was a master at the putdown. So I’ll just direct the second insult on the list to a couple of local bloggers of my (virtual) acquaintance…
- “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 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
- “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
- “There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.” –Jack E. Leonard
- “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
- “His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” –Mae West