Classic insults

*When Insults Had Class*😀😎

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*There was a time when words w ere used beautifully. These glorious insults and wit !!*

The exchange between Churchill and Lady Astor:

She said, "If you were my husband, I'd give you poison!!"

and he said, "If you were my wife, I'd take it."

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Gladstone, a Member of Parliament, to Benjamin Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows, or of some unspeakable disease."

"That depends, sir", said Disraeli, "On whether I embrace your policies, or your mistress."

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

 - Winston Churchill

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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

 - Clarence Darrow

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"He has never been known to use a word, that might send a reader to the dictionary."

 - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

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"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."

 - Moses Hadas

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"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

 - Mark Twain

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"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."

 - Oscar Wilde

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"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.

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"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope, it's nothing trivial."

 - Irvin S. Cobb

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

- Samuel Johnson

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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

 - Oscar Wilde

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"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts .. . . for support rather than illumination."

 - Andrew Lang

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