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"A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults."
-Louis Nizer
"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
-Stephen Bishop
"He is a self-made man & worships his creator."
- John Bright
"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've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
-Irvin S. Cobb
"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)
"He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul."
-David Lloyd George
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
-Moses Hadas
"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
-Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
"His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open."
-Howard Hughes (about Clark Gable)
"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
"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."
-Jack E. Leonard
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
-Abraham Lincoln
"You've got the brain of a four_year_old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it."
-Groucho Marx
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
-Groucho Marx
"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt."
-Robert Redford
"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."
-Thomas Brackett Reed
"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them."
-James Reston (about Richard Nixon)
"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
"A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity."
-Mark Twain
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
-Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
-Mae West
"She is a peacock in everything but beauty."
-Oscar Wilde
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
-Oscar Wilde
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
-Oscar Wilde
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
-Billy Wilder
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...for support rather than illumination."
-Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
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MAGICFOREST
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MARVELLOUS
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TalviFatin
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I love you, complier
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celestias shadow
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yay for smart-people insults!
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pipedream
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hahahahha i'll say...lol mark twain was GOOD for insults..hahaha i think i'll try some out today *grins*
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thimble in time
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lalalalala. thimble grinning in delight
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celestias shadow
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shakespearean insults are still the best. we got a whole list of them in english last year.
example- "thou mottled, foul-bellied clap-dragon!" only one of hundreds. i may still have the list. *grins*
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pipedream
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lol could you send it to me? i love shakesperean ones; usually me and my friend hassan invent ones of our own...i find roald dahl has a wonderful way with insults too, 'you filthy, scabby maggot!'
'you dastardly rascal offspring of a rabid she-ogre and syphilitic sailor! begone with you and your vile scabby monkey arse!'
*grins*
that's a hybrid of the aboves 8D
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celestias shadow
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sweet. yeah, i'll send it if i can find it.
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