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QuoteThe exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:

She said, "If you were my husband Id give you poison." He said, "If you were my wife, Id drink it."
 

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 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; Ill waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas



 

"I didnt 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

"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; its almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright



 

"Ive just learned about his illness.. Lets hope its nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating



 

"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 uncl



 

"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 Goghs ear for music." - Billy Wilder



 

"Ive had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasnt it." -  Groucho Marx