When insults had class.
 

"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

"I've had a perfectly wounderful 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 play. Bring a friend... if you have one"
-George Bernard 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 inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them"
-James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial"
-Irving 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 has 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 lighting bolt"
-Robert Redford

"they never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge"
-Thomas Brackett Reed

"He is a self made man and worships his creator"
-John Bright

"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

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know"
-Abraham Lincoln

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork"
-Mae West

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

"He uses statistics as a drunken uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination"
-Andrew Lang

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go"
-Oscar Wilde

A large number of people here fit this...

The Redford quote reminds me of one he used in the movie Sneakers.

(talking to an NSA agent he disliked)

Redford: "Yeah, the NSA was going to hire me, too...until they found out my parents were married."

classy!!

haha some good ones

That's awesome...

Classic. Do you have the link where you found those?

"Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!"
Lady Nancy Astor

"Madam, if I were your husband, I'd drink it!"
Winston Churchill
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"I never forget a face. Yours I'll make an exception"
George Burns

"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
Mark Twain

"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."
Groucho Marx

"For you to insult me, I must first value your opinion"
Jashwin Antony

"I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight."
Mark Twain

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt."
Abraham Lincoln

Thats an awesome one

thanks for the post!

"Madam, I may be drunk, but tomorrow I will be sober and you will still be ugly"
-Winston Churchill

lmfao these are awesome. I'm going to steal half. This is a much better way of being insulting

Charming

If I see you at a show lm sure l will be able to spot you from the talent

(Claire Prescott XXXBizTV 29th Aril 2008) :thumbsup

Ergh... hmm...

hey it wasnt that bad ,lm no winston churchill :1orglaugh

Excellent choices :)

This is twain, and a number of others seem rather dubiously attributed.

Well, since they both said it, and Lincoln was 26 years older, I am going to give the nod to him unless you can come up with a better reason why not.

Alternatively, you could document where Lincoln said it.

Its baddog, surely he heard it first hand. :winkwink:

Any good Dorothy Parker quotes in there (the source) ?

"If you were any smarter, I would admire you", made up. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

"A committee is a creature with three or more legs and no brain." Robert Heinlein
"Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism." Robert Heinlein
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Napoleon Bonaparte
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." Oscar Wilde

I believe the source is a facebook group called "When insults had class".

At the same time those were being said there were hundreds that we just as dumb as most of what are heard today.

some great ones there, will be sure to use then when doing support and the customer is simply too stupid for words..

even though all the insults in fact have "class" are better said are though trough


look at who they come from ? its not like they come from your average joe working at the supermarket .......

Lol, some very nice ones there!!

The problem insulting people this way , now days is that it will be entirely wasted on 99.9% of the people.

"Rehab is for quitters "

(author unknown)


:thumbsup

Love all the Churchill quotes