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 | "A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults." | |
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Louis Nizer
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| "Calumnies are answered best with silence." | |
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Ben Jonson
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| "Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the
river." | |
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Proverb
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| "Don"t be so humble ? you are not that great." | |
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Golda Meir
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| "He looks as though he"s been weaned on a pickle." | |
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Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth
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| "He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop." | |
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Sydney Smith
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| "He would make a lovely corpse." | |
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Charles Dickens
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| "Hemingway was a jerk." | |
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Harold Robbins
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| "Her only flair is in her nostrils." | |
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Pauline Kael
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| "His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly
developed moral bankruptcy." | |
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Woody Allen
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| "I don"t have to have faith. I have experience." | |
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Joseph Campbell
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| "I"ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn"t it." | |
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Groucho Marx
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| "It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we
take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own
opinion which is provoking." | |
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Epictetus
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| "Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the
river." | |
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Cordell Hull
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| "One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then
stumbling on something witty." | |
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Jane Austen
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| "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book ? I"ll waste no time
reading it." | |
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Moses Hadas
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| "There"s nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won"t
aggravate." | |
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Unknown
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| "You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible
voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner." | |
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Aristophanes
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