When Insults Had Class

Yes, this was a forward worth republishing. From my friend in Atlanta!

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

- Winston Churchill

"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 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

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."

- Stephen Bishop

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."

- Winston Churchill (about Clement Atlee)

"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 (to Ernest Hemingway) & "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" - Ernest Hemingway (to William Faulkner)

"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."

- Samuel Johnson

"He had delusions of adequacy."

- Walter Kerr

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."

- Groucho Marx

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."

- Thomas Brackett Reed

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."

- Forrest Tucker

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of 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 has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."

- Oscar Wilde