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
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