When Insults Had Class
Part 3

• "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." —Thomas Brackett Reed
• "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." —James Reston (about Richard Nixon)
• "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 Wilde

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