{"id":546,"date":"2016-01-06T16:50:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T21:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=546"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:54:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:54:37","slug":"remarkable-insults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Remarkable Insults"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>These glorious insults are from a previous era &#8212; before four-letter words serve as the core of one\u2019s pointed comments.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He had delusions of adequacy. &#8211; Walter Kerr<\/li>\n<li>He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. &#8211; Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li>I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. &#8211; Clarence Darrow<\/li>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. &#8211; Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li>Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I&#8217;ll waste no time reading it. &#8211; Moses Hadas<\/li>\n<li>He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. &#8211; Abraham Lincoln<\/li>\n<li>He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. &#8211; Oscar Wilde<\/li>\n<li>I feel so miserable without you; it&#8217;s almost like having you here. &#8211; Stephen Bishop<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve just learned about his illness. Let&#8217;s hope it&#8217;s nothing trivial &#8211; Irvin S. Cobb<\/li>\n<li>He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others. &#8211; Samuel Johnson<\/li>\n<li>A modest little person, with much to be modest about. &#8211; Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li>He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. &#8211; Forrest Tucker<\/li>\n<li>He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. &#8211; Paul Keating<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won&#8217;t cure.- Jack E. Leonard<\/li>\n<li>He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. &#8211; Robert Redford<\/li>\n<li>They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. &#8211; Thomas Brackett Reed<\/li>\n<li>In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily. &#8211; Charles, Count Talleyrand<\/li>\n<li>Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? &#8211; Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li>His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. &#8211; Mae West<\/li>\n<li>Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. &#8211; Oscar Wilde<\/li>\n<li>He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts&#8230; for support rather than illumination. &#8211; Andrew Lang<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve had a perfectly wonderful evening &#8212; but this wasn&#8217;t it. &#8211; Groucho Marx<\/li>\n<li>He has Van Gogh&#8217;s ear for music. &#8211; Billy Wilder<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend&#8230;. if you have one.\u201d &#8211; George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill \u2013 and Winston Churchill, in response: \u201cCannot possibly attend first night, will attend second&#8230; if there is one.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHe has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.&#8221; &#8211; William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway) \u2013 and Ernest Hemingway in response: &#8220;Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A Member of Parliament to Disraeli: &#8220;Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.&#8221; &#8220;That depends, Sir,&#8221; said Disraeli, &#8220;on whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The exchange between Churchill &amp; Lady Astor: She said, &#8220;If you were my husband I&#8217;d give you poison,&#8221; and he said, &#8220;If you were my wife, I&#8217;d drink it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These glorious insults are from a previous era &#8212; before four-letter words serve as the core of one\u2019s pointed comments. He had delusions of adequacy. &#8211; Walter Kerr He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. &#8211; Winston Churchill I have never killed a man, but I have read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7678,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/7678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}