{"id":97,"date":"2007-08-04T12:38:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T19:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/2007\/08\/04\/when-insults-had-class\/"},"modified":"2007-08-04T12:38:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T19:38:02","slug":"when-insults-had-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/04\/when-insults-had-class\/","title":{"rendered":"When insults had class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collected by BoreMe.com<\/a><\/p>\n

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
Winston Churchill<\/p>\n

“A modest little person, with much to be modest about.”
Winston Churchill<\/p>\n

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
Clarence Darrow<\/p>\n

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)<\/p>\n

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)<\/p>\n

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.”
Moses Hadas<\/p>\n

“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.”
Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n

“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.”
Groucho Marx<\/p>\n

“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Mark Twain<\/p>\n

“He has no enemies , but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n

“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<\/p>\n

“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is one.”
Winston Churchill, in response<\/p>\n

“I feel so miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here.”
Stephen Bishop<\/p>\n

“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”
John Bright<\/p>\n

“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.”
Irvin S. Cobb<\/p>\n

“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.”
Samuel Johnson<\/p>\n

“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
Paul Keating<\/p>\n

“He had delusions of adequacy.”
Walter Kerr<\/p>\n

“There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.”
Jack E. Leonard<\/p>\n

“He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.”
Robert Redford<\/p>\n

“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.”
Thomas Brackett Reed<\/p>\n

“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.”
James Reston (about Richard Nixon)<\/p>\n

“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.”
Charles, Count Talleyrand<\/p>\n

“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”
Forrest Tucker<\/p>\n

“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
Mark Twain<\/p>\n

“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
Mae West<\/p>\n

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.”
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)<\/p>\n

“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”
Billy Wilder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Collected by BoreMe.com “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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}