Some classy insults!
These insults are from an era before our English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. These folks really knew how to use the language to mock/blast/eviscerate each other!
“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.” -Groucho Marx
“He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” – Samuel Johnson
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” -William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.” -Charles, Count Talleyrand
“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.” -Irvin S. Cobb
“He had delusions of adequacy.” -Walter Kerr
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” -Clarence Darrow
“Some cause happpiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” -Oscar Wilde
I find these witty…some snarky…some just delightful!
How about you?
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I love these! They are definitely class acts.