Insults before 4 letter words

These outstanding insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to four letter words:


· A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
    "That depends, sir," said Disraeli, "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


· "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).


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



· "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



· "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