//Dil Se Desi// Insulting Greats

 

Insulting Greats

Dinesh Vora

 

 

"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 response

 

"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

 

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."
-- Jack E. Leonard

 

"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

 

"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

 

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
-- Billy Wilder

 

 

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