When insults had class...

A recent series started in the Asian Age, Kolkata is titled 'When insults had class', a series of witty quotes by people. I was very impressed with the collection and thought of sharing a few gems with you:

• "He has all the virt ues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill
  

• "A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - Winston Churchill

• "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

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

• "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." - Jack E. Leonard

• "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker

• "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

While reading a little more on the nature of insults (!) I learnt that in medicine insult is a synonym for injury or trauma. No wonder!