Classy Insults

> "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