These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. Insults then, had some class!
1. "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, I will attend the second...If there is one."
- Winston Churchill, in response.
2. 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."
3. "He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr
4. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
5. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
6."Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
7. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
8. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.."
9. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
10."He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
11. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
12. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
13. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
14. "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
- Charles, Count Talleyrand
15. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
16. "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
17. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
18. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
19. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... For support rather than illumination."
- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
20. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
21. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
22."He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
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