A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."· "That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."· "He had delusions of adequacy." -Walter Kerr· "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." -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).· "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." -Moses Hadas· "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.." -Oscar Wilde· "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.· "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· "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· "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· "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." – Groucho Marx
Some days I wonder what FF was up to that lead to a post I've always liked: You are a third-rate mind on a fourth-rate body." - Dorothy Parker, to actor George Jessel.