Effective use of the insult When people tend to use four
letter expletives to insult, these will take you back to a time when
your quick wits and use of language were all you needed.
The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
She said, "If you were my husband I'd put poison in your coffee,"
and he said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the
gallows or of some unspeakable disease." "That depends, Sir," said
Disraeli, "on whether I embrace your policies 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
"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
"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 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.
"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
"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." - Jack
E. Leonard
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on
it?" - Mark Twain
"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