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." -

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