Showing posts with label wit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wit. Show all posts

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Was That An Insult?


The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it;
if you can’t ignore it, top it; if you can’t top it;
if you can’t top it, laugh at it;
if you can’t laugh at it, it’s probably deserved
-    J Russel Lynes

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

-    Groucho Marx

I regard you with an indifference bordering on aversion.

-    Robert L Stevenson

He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

-    Raymond Chandler

He’s liked, but he’s not well liked.

-    Arthur Miller

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions

-    Mark Twain

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

-    Jonathan Swift

He would stab his best friend to write an epigram on his tombstone.

-    Oscar Wilde

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire

-    Winston Churchill

He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

-    Ayn Rand

He had a winning smile, everything else was a loser.

-    George C Scott

The tautness of is face sours ripe grapes.

-    William Shakespeare

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

-    George Bernard Shaw

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea and that was wrong.

- Benjamin Disraeli