A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
Disraeli replied "That depends, Sir, whether I embrace your policies or your mistress." |
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Winston Churchill |
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway). |
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
Mark Twain |
"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. |
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
John Bright |
“Some of my best leading men have been dogs… and horses."
Elizabeth Taylor |
"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
Samuel Johnson |
"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
Charles, Count Talleyrand |
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
Mark Twain |
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde |
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
Billy Wilder |
“There is nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.”
Jack E. Leonard |
