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Thu 13 Jul, 2006 06:40 am
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 bigwords?
- 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 reply