"He has all the virtues I dislike & 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)
"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."
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
-- Oscar Wilde
"I am enclosing 2 tickets to the 1st night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one."
-- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill...
followed by Churchill's response:
"Cannot possibly attend 1st night, will attend 2nd, if there is one."
-- Winston Churchill
"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
"He had delusions of adequacy."
-- Walter Kerr
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
-- Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away & kept the stork." -- Mae West
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
-- Oscar Wilde
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