Glorius Insults

These glorious insults are from an era before a great portion of the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words, not to mention waving middle fingers.

• A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the Gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' 'That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'on whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.'
• 'He had delusions of adequacy.' - Walter Kerr
• '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
• 'He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.' - Abraham Lincoln
• '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
• 'He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.' – Paul Keating
• 'There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.' - Jack E. Leonard
• 'He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.' – Robert Redford
• 'They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.' - Thomas Brackett Reed
• '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 this wasn't it.' - Groucho Marx