dubious plaudits

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Dubious Plaudits


"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

"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

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening - but this wasn't it."
* Groucho Marx

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of
human
knowledge." * Thomas Brackett Reed

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any
address on it?"
* Mark Twain

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I
approved of it." * Mark Twain

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
* Oscar Wilde

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."*
Oscar Wilde

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." * Billy Wilder

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for
support rather
than illumination." * Andrew Lang (1844-1912)