When Insults Had Class

(Via my Uncle Jeff)
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• "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 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
• "He had delusions of adequacy." -- Walter Kerr
• "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -- Jack E. Leonard
• "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of Human knowledge." -- Thomas Brackett Reed
• "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
• "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

Put your foot in your mouth.

Too awful not to share. : )

(From the blog of Faces, a fun and wacky Northampton store.)