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Classic put-downs

"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

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

"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 is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
- Samuel Johnson

"He had delusions of adequacy."
- Walter Kerr

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."
- Jack E. Leonard

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