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"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)
"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
followed by Churchill's response:
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there is one."
-- Winston Churchill
"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
" 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
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