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Title: These glorious insults use words from an era prior to the English:-
Post by: doylebros on August 24, 2014, 02:42:33 pm

These glorious insults use words from an era prior to the English language becoming what it has become today :


If only one could reall them at an opportune moment !​

"He had delusions of adequacy."
- Walter Kerr


"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill


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


A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."


"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).


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


"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


"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
- Charles, Count Talleyran


"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
- Mae West


"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
- Forrest Tucker


"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
- Mark Twain


"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


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

Title: Re: These glorious insults use words from an era prior to the English:-
Post by: stuart-88 on August 24, 2014, 06:38:08 pm
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

Best come back ever!
Title: Re: These glorious insults use words from an era prior to the English:-
Post by: Frenzy on August 24, 2014, 11:21:47 pm
Top quality expressions!  :congrats:
Title: Re: These glorious insults use words from an era prior to the English:-
Post by: berg on August 27, 2014, 08:12:15 am
Some would be impossible to use but the odd one could be used if you could recall at the right time
Title: Re: These glorious insults use words from an era prior to the English:-
Post by: usmangti on August 27, 2014, 12:33:18 pm
Lol These are quality!!