"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
- 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)
"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 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
"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 reply
