Some lovely quotes

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 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.

"He had delusions of adequacy."
-- Walter Kerr.

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."
-- Jack E. Leonard.

"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt."
-- Robert Redford.

"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)

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
-- Charles, Count Talleyrand.

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
-- Forrest Tucker.

"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)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
-- Billy Wilder.

"I can't think of anything worse after a night of drinking than waking up next to someone and not being able to remember their name, or how you met, or why they're dead."
--Laura Kightlinger.