He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar WildeTag: classic-insult
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Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
Dorothy ParkerTag: humor beauty classic-insult ugly
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar WildeTag: classic-insult
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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
Moses HadasTag: books literary-criticism time bad-reviews classic-insult irony
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
Groucho MarxTag: classic-insult
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]
Tag: virtue admiration classic-insult vice
Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
Clarence DarrowTag: humor science determinism free-will death temperament classic-insult personality instinct tendencies urges
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
— Churchill's response
Tag: classic-insult
A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: attributed-no-source drinking classic-insult drunkenness apocryphal retort
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor intelligence people stupidity classic-insult
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