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When insults had class - 727Sky - 11-06-2023
Quote:Quote:These glorious insults are from an era " before" the English language got boiled down 4-letter words or "tweets."
"He had delusions of adequacy."
Walter Kerr
"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)
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
Moses Hadas
"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
"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 (1844-1912)
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
Billy Wilder
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it."
Groucho Marx
RE: When insults had class - BodhisattvaStyle - 11-06-2023
(11-06-2023, 11:12 PM)727Sky Wrote:Quote:Quote:These glorious insults are from an era " before" the English language got boiled down 4-letter words or "tweets."
"He had delusions of adequacy."
Walter Kerr
"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)
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
Moses Hadas
"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
"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 (1844-1912)
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
Billy Wilder
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it."
Groucho Marx
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
My two favorites
RE: When insults had class - 727Sky - 11-07-2023
"As an outsider, what's your perspective on intelligence?"
“I can explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you.”
"To think you were the fastest sperm."
"I'd insult you, but I'm afraid you wouldn't notice it."
"I apologize for making you feel bad when I called you stupid. In my defense, I thought you knew..."
If I agree with you all it will do is make us both wrong... (That may be mine ?)
RE: When insults had class - Grace - 11-07-2023
(11-06-2023, 11:18 PM)BodhisattvaStyle Wrote:(11-06-2023, 11:12 PM)727Sky Wrote:Quote:Quote:
"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
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
My two favorites
I really enjoy the exchange between Shaw and Churchill... Churchill's response was just so classic! Can't be beat!
I also often feel like Oscar Wilde's quote above... Lol.
RE: When insults had class - DISRAELI - 11-07-2023
Two more Winston Churchills;
"He's a modest man, with a lot to be modest about" (referring to Clement Attlee).
Female M.P. "Winston, you're drunk!"
Churchill; "And you're ugly, Madam. but I shall be sober in the morning."
The latter has just reminded me of this more proverbial one;
"I was born ugly. What's your excuse?"
RE: When insults had class - 727Sky - 11-10-2023
https://thoughtcatalog.com/lorenzo-jensen-iii/2015/04/29-vicious-and-hilarious-putdowns-insults/
Quote:1.
Everyone who ever loved you was wrong.
2.
You’re not pretty enough to be this stupid.
3.
You are depriving some village somewhere of an idiot.
4.
I’m jealous of all the people that haven’t met you.
5.
I don’t have the time or the crayons to explain this to you.
6.
I’m not as stupid as you look.
7.
Your parents are disappointed in you.
8.
I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.
9.
It was called a jumpoline before your mom jumped on it.
10.
You’re as sharp as a marble.
11.
It’s been a pleasure to meet the poster child for the pro-choice movement.
12.
Your birth certificate is an apology letter from the condom factory.
13.
Are your parents cousins?
14.
Someone should tear you down and put up a human being.
15.
You are a lesser son of greater sires.
16.
If you had another brain, it would be lonely.
17.
If you were twice as smart as you are, you’d be half as smart as you think you are.
18.
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge; you only gargled.
19.
You should leave before somebody drops a house on you.
20.
How did you survive infancy?
21.
I hope the worst day of your past is the best day of your future.
22.
Do you ever think how much happier I’d be if your mother swallowed?
23.
May you stink forever.
24.
I don’t hate you. I don’t care enough about you to hate you.
25.
You are the result of a wet dream your mother rolled into.
26.
You’re so inbred you might as well be a sandwich.
27.
You’re so ugly you make blind kids cry.
28.
You’ll never need birth control with a personality like that.
29.
Did your mom have any kids that lived?
I do like this one: Lady Astor; "If I were married to you, I would put poison in your coffee".
Churchill; If I were married to you, I would drink it."