from a blog junren forwarded to me
- "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)
- "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
- "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
- "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)
- "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)