My friend and fellow author Irene Peterson sent me a list of insults from a time when insults had class. Seemed appropriate considering the Thoughtful Thursday discussion about the insults toward the Romance genre.
So here’s some of the finer attacks!
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“If you were my husband, I’d give you poison.” – Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
“If you were my wife, I’d drink it.” – Churchill’s reply to Lady Astor
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” – Winston Churchill
“I feel so miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here.” – Stephen Bishop
“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
“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.” – Churchill’s reply to Shaw
“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” – John Bright
“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.” – Charles, Count Talleyrand
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde
Lest I be accused of not providing the proper citations, the above rather humorous insults came from the following websites as well as by surfing the Net for “famous insults” which will yield a plethora of sites containing the above quotes as well as some other rather pithy ones:
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www.getamused.com
www.barthmobile.com
www.garbageduty.com
Hope you all have a great weekend!