Time for some wordplay and levity…
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” – Winston Churchill
“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 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
“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 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)
“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
