An exchange between
Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband, I'd give you
poisoned tea." He answered, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
A member of Parliament to Prime Minister Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die
on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease." "That depends, sir," said
Disraeli, "whether I embrace yourpolicies or your mistress."
"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - 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
"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 did send a nice letter saying I approved
of it." - Mark Twain
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde
"I'm enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a
friend. . .if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill In
response: Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second. . .if
there is one." Winston Churchill
"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
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker
"Why don't 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
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx