When Insults Had Class
- "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." ~ Stephen Bishop
- "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." ~ Moses Hadas
- "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." ~ Jack E. Leonard
- "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
- "Don't be so humble. You're not that great." ~ Golda Meir
- "I desire that we be better strangers." ~ William Shakespeare (in As you like it)
- "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
- "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." ~ Oscar Wilde
Some weaker ones
- "She has all the characteristics of a poker, except its occasional warmth." ~ Brendan Behan
- "I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial." ~ Irvin S. Cobb
- "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 is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." ~ Samuel Johnson
- "He had delusions of adequacy." ~ Walter Kerr
- "Your face and form, Madam, has inspired me to celibacy." ~ Walter Kerr
- "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts... for support rather than illumination." ~ Andrew Lang
- "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." ~ Dorothy Parker
- "He inherited some good instincts from his ... forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." ~ James Reston
- "A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but yours is an exception." ~ Vincent
- "He has Van Gogh’s ear for music." ~ Billy Wilder
- "Do come again when you can’t stay so long..." ~ Gold-diggers of ’32 (is this a song?)
- "When your IQ goes to 10, start selling." ~ ???/li>
- "You seem to have given too many people a piece of your mind." ~ ???
- "He is as steady as a rock and [has] the I.Q. as well." ~ ???
- "Shall we let them enjoy themselves a little longer, or had we better have your speech?" ~ ???
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