When Insults Had Class (no 4-letter words !!)

      The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you  
were my husband I'd give you poison," and he said, "If you were my
wife, I'd 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, "on whether I embrace your
policies or your mistress."

      "He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr

      "He has all the virtues 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

      "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to
the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

      "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big
words?"  - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

      "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time
reading it." - Moses Hadas

      "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I
know."  -  Abraham Lincoln

       "I didn't 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; it's almost like having you here."
-  Stephen Bishop

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

      "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing
trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb

      "He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in
others." - Samuel Johnson "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 has the attention span of a lightning bolt." - Robert Redford

      "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of
human knowledge." - Thomas Brackett Reed

      "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
"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
Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder

      "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening But this wasn't it." -
Groucho Marx

Yes, some of them are wishing evil on others, and other blatant offenses against charity. Others are just stating facts, such as:

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

And I think it would be very appropriate to say this about George Bush -- again, it's just a fact:

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln