When Insults Had Class...

When Insults Had Class...These glorious insults are from an era before the English language was boiled down to four-letter words.   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 had delusions of adequacy ."  -Walter Kerr    "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)   "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 Talleyrand   "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   "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 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

Thanks Ralph