"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)
"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... followed by
Churchills response:
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there is one."
--Winston Churchill
"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
"He had delusions of adequacy."
--Walter Kerr
"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
"It does not take many words to speak the truth". Chief Joseph
