When Insults Had Class
- "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 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)
- "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas
- "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
- Abraham Lincoln
- "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx
- "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 reply