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"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 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)
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>"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions Come from big words?"
> -- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
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>"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll Waste no time reading
>It."
> -- Moses Hadas
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>"He can compress the most words into the smallest Idea of any man I know."
> -- Abraham Lincoln
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>"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this Wasn't it."
> -- Groucho Marx
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>"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice Letter saying I approved of it."
> -- Mark Twain
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>>"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope Without any address on
>>it?"
> -- Mark Twain
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>"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his Friends."
> -- Oscar Wilde
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>"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
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>"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend Second... If there is one."
> -- Winston Churchill, in response.
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>"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like Having you here."
> -- Stephen Bishop
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>"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
> -- John Bright
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>"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
> -- Irvin S. Cobb
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>"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of Dullness in others."
> -- Samuel Johnson
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>"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
> -- Paul Keating
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>"He had delusions of adequacy."
> -- Walter Kerr
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>"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."
> -- Jack E. Leonard
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>"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt."
> -- Robert Redford
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>"They never open their mouths without subtracting From the sum of human Knowledge."
> -- Thomas Brackett Reed
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>"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker Forebears, but by diligent Hard work, he overcame Them."
> -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon)
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>"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always Yielded easily."
> -- Charles, Count Talleyrand
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>"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
> -- Forrest Tucker
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>"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the Stork."
> -- Mae West
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>"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, Whenever they go."
> -- Oscar Wilde
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>"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses Lamp-posts... For support rather than illumination."
> -- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
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>"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
> -- Billy Wilder

^^^
My favourite Churchill quote is to a woman at a party:

W: Sir, you are drunk.
C: Madam, you are ugly..but in the morning I will be sober.

brillient very amusing.