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“I feel so miserable without
you; it's almost like having you here.”
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Stephen
Bishop
|
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“He is a self-made man &
worships his creator.”
|
John
Bright
|
|
“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
|
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“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
|
|
“His ears made him look like
a taxicab with both doors open.”
|
Howard
Hughes
(about Clark Gable)
|
|
“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 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
|
|
“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
|
|
“I didn't attend the funeral,
but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of 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 has no enemies, but is
intensely disliked by his friends.”
|
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
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