Famous Witty Insults
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
- Mae West
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
- Oscar Wilde
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
- Forrest Tucker
"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
"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 reply
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without
any address on it?"
- Mark Twain
"I didn't attend the funeral,
but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
- Mark Twain
"I have never killed a man,
but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
- Clarence Darrow
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening,
but... This wasn't it!!"
- Groucho Marx
Val, most of these I've read before except the envelope without and address. Very funny.
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