- "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)
- "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
- "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
- "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
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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
"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
- "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
- "He had delusions of adequacy.", Walter Kerr
- "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 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
- "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)
- "He has Van Gogh's ear for music.", Billy Wilder
- "This is the type of errant pedantry up with which I shall not put.", Winston Churchill
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