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Categories - Copywriting - Shopping - Free Online Business Help - Telecommunications Services Articles: Self - When Insults Had Class Today’s insults tend to amount to guttural name calling, leaving the target laughing or ready to roll around in the streets with their enemy and the offender looking worse than the person that they tried to insult. Instead of making use of the English language and their minds, legislators pepper their insults with four letter words causing everyone who hears them to wonder about their intelligence and upbringing. It wasn’t that long ago that delivering insults was done in a manner that displayed wit and intelligence. Occasionally, the insults would lead to duels that were much more deadly than the brawls we see today, but usually, unlike today, they left people knowing that their respect was not misplaced. They would usually leave people chuckling instead of aghast. Try to imagine how the following insults and exchanges would be delivered in today’s language. A member of Parliament to Disraeli: Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.
That depends, Sir, said Disraeli, on whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.
He had delusions of adequacy. - Walter Kerr
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)
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln
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
I 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 Keatin
There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure. – Jack E. Leonard
He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. - Robert Redford
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. - Thomas Brackett Reed
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
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
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