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03/30/23 Grif.Net – Genteel Insults

03/30/23 Grif.Net – Genteel Insults

[These insults are from an era before the English language got =
boiled down to 4-letter words. Insults, then, had some class]

 

>>"I did=
n’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.&q=
uot;

– 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. I will attend the se=
cond. if there is one."

– Winston Churc=
hill, in response.

 

>>"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book.=
I’ll waste no time reading it."

– Mose=
s Hadas

 

>>A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either di=
e on the gallows, or of some unspeakable disease."

"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I e=
mbrace your policies or your mistress."

 

>>"He had delusions of a=
dequacy." – Walter Kerr

 

>>"I have never killed a man, but I have=
read many obituaries with great pleasure."

– Clarence Darrow

 

~~

Dr Bob Griffin

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t;Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!"

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