Thought for the day

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here`s a bunch of em in one go

ENGLISH WITH CLASS













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




· 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