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Read Replies (1) | Respond to I won’t be attending your funeral, but rest assured I will send a letter saying I approve of it..."He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr "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 "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 "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) "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx '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 has Van Gogh's ear for music.' - Billy Wilder 'He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.' - Abraham Lincoln 'A modest little person, with much to be modest about. ' - Winston Churchill The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison." He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it." A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease. "That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress." An interchange in Parliament between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill. It was after lunch: Lady Astor: "Sir, you are drunk. Abominably drunk." ...Churchill: "Madam, you are ugly. Abominably ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober."
