Insults with Style

"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