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By Daniel Sawyerr
Famous
FAMOUS INSULTS
LEARN HOW TO INSULT YOUR ENEMIES WITH STYLE. HERE ARE SOME QUOTES FROM THE
RICH AND FAMOUS!
“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’ve just learned
about his illness. Let’s
hope it’s nothing trivial.”
Irvin S. Cobb
“I have never killed a
man, but I have read
many obituaries
with great pleasure.”
Clarence Darrow
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“He has never been “There’s nothing “His mother should have “She speaks five
known to use a word wrong with you that thrown him away and languages and can’t act
that might send a reader reincarnation won’t cure.” kept the stork.” in any of them.” Sir John
to the dictionary.” Jack E. Leonard Mae West Gielgud on Swedish
William Faulkner (about actress Ingrid Bergman
Ernest Hemingway)
“Some cause happiness
“I’ve had a perfectly wherever they go; others
“Poor Faulkner. Does he wonderful evening. whenever they go.”
really think big emotions But this wasn’t it.” Oscar Wilde
come from big words?” Groucho Marx
Ernest Hemingway
(about William Faulkner)
“Bill Clinton is a man
who thinks international
affairs mean dating
“He can compress a girl from out of town.”
the most words into Tom Clancy
“He loves nature in spite the smallest idea of any
“Thank you for sending of what it did to him.” man I know.”
me a copy of your book; I’ll Forrest Tucker Abraham Lincoln
waste no time reading it.”
Moses Hadas
GLOSSARY
a virtue n
a good quality
modest adj
if you are “modest”, you do not
“He is not only dull “I didn’t attend the “He has no enemies, but talk much about your qualities/
achievements, etc.
himself; he is the cause funeral, but I sent a nice is intensely disliked by an obituary n
an article about someone’s
of dullness in others.” letter saying I approved his friends.” Oscar Wilde character and achievements that is
Samuel Johnson of it.” Mark Twain published after they have died
dull adj
not interesting; boring
a stork n
a large bird with a long beak
(nose) and long legs which lives
near water. Some people tell their
children that the stork brings
babies to parents