Thursday, April 10, 2014

Insults, Taunts and Rebukes

4:53 PM

Particularly literate people have a way of delivering rebukes and insults. In fact, they do it a lot better than you do.


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"A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults."--Louis Nizer


"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


"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've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. "--Irvin S. Cobb


"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)


"He had delusions of adequacy."--Walter Kerr


"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."--Abraham Lincoln


"You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it."--Groucho Marx


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


"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt."--Robert Redford


"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


"She is a peacock in everything but beauty."--Oscar Wilde


"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


and...


"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."--Billy Wilder

Posted April 7, 2014 8: 00 AM


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