Clean Insults /Quotes

These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. Insults then, had some class!

  1. “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, I will attend the second…If there is one.”
    • Winston Churchill, in response.
  2. 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.”
  3. “He had delusions of adequacy.” – Walter Kerr
  4. “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
    • Clarence Darrow
  5. “He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
    • William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

6.”Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.”
– Moses Hadas

  1. “I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    • Mark Twain
  2. “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends..”
    • Oscar Wilde
  3. “I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.”
    • Stephen Bishop

10.”He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”
– John Bright

  1. “I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.”
    • Irvin S. Cobb
  2. “He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.”
    • Samuel Johnson
  3. “He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
    • Paul Keating
  4. “In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.”
    • Charles, Count Talleyrand
  5. “He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”
    • Forrest Tucker
  6. “Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
    • Mark Twain
  7. “His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
    • Mae West
  8. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
    • Oscar Wilde
  9. “He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… For support rather than illumination.”
    • Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
  10. “He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”
    • Billy Wilder
  11. “I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.”
    • Groucho Marx.

22.”He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
– Winston Churchill

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Author: GreatCosmicMothersUnited

I have joined with many parents affected with the surreal , yet accepted issue of child abuse via Pathogenic Parenting / Domestic abuse. As a survivor of Domestic Abuse, denial abounded that 3 sons were not affected. In my desire to be family to those who have found me lacking . As a survivor of psychiatric abuse, therapist who abused also and toxic prescribed medications took me to hell on earth with few moments of heaven. I will share my life, my experiences and my studies and research.. I will talk to small circles and I will council ; as targeted parents , grandparents , aunts , uncles etc. , are denied contact with a child for reasons that serve the abuser ...further abusing the child. I grasp the trauma and I have looked at the lost connection to a higher power.. I grasp when one is accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like discrimination.. Shame and affluence silences a lot of facts , truths that have been labeled "negative". It is about liberation of the soul from projections of a alienator , and abuser ..

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