glorious insults

[mikeysaling]

These glorious insults are from an era in the English language before they were reduced to four-letter words:

The 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 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

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. - Kip Adota

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. Cob

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 this wasn't it. - Groucho Marx

[prospero]

One from Clement Freud (From the non-PC era. )

Bad News: The Chinese have landed on the Moon.

Good News: All of them.

[Bill Henry]

My mother told me never to speak ill of the dead.
He’s dead?
Good!
– Moms Mabley

[Cathy]

If I wanted to work with a pack of bitches I would be working in the hunt kennel's, Me to work colleague 1986

[mikeysaling]

did you leave shortly after this event?

[Cathy]

No worked there for another 2 year's before joining a circus

[mikeysaling]

its gotta be asked - what did you do in a circus?

[Cathy]

its gotta be asked - what did you do in a circus?

Horse & other animal trainer, inluding zebra, camel's, hippo, elephant's some big cat,s & bear's in the beginning then got to wear load's of silly costume's for other act's