4月5日
Literary Taunts
There are, I'm sure, in the lives of all of us, a moment when we wished we could have delivered a witty remark, a real zinger, apt retribution for someone who has raised our ire, offended to the core, or was just begging to be deflated in their pompous arrogance. I remember my admiration the first time I read the famous nose speech in "Cyrano de Bergerac" and the rapier like wit that flowed from the page. Here are some famous literary taunts sent to me recently by a friend. (I recall JB Metz may have also had these at some time on his page.) I felt they were worthy to share with you today.
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GREAT LITERARY TAUNTS
"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." --- Stephen Bishop
"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." -- Winston Churchill (about Clement Atlee)
"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)
"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others." --- Samuel Johnson
"He had delusions of adequacy." --- Walter Kerr
"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
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." --- Forrest Tucker
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of 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 has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." --- Oscar Wilde
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." --- Billy Wilder
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