Too good to ignore: world's greatest insults

From: Georgie Hinklemyer <samoolives_at_yahoo.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 02:42:06 -0000

Thanks Elena. I just had to share it with everyone else, too.

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This just in from our roving internet philanderer... I mean
philanthropist...


GREAT LITERARY TAUNTS --

  "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'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)

  "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

  "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." --- Billy Wilder
Received on 2006-02-04 18:42:13