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