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"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 "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've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't
it." -- Groucho Marx "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'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 "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 "He inherited some
good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard
work, he overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon) "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 (1) "He has
Van Gogh's ear for music." -- Billy Wilder "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 "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've had
a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." -- Groucho Marx
"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'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 "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 "He inherited some good
instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he
overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon) "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 (1) "He has Van
Gogh's ear for music." -- Billy Wilder
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