When insults had class
It’s stating the obvious to say that the worst thing about the internet is the horde of morons that populate it (present company excluded, of course). I will admit to antagonising these sad excuses for human beings for my own amusement in the past. What can I say? As a kid I used to stir up ant’s nests.But no more. I’m done with these losers. I refuse to even acknowledge their pathetic attempts at insults until they make a decent effort. They may never reach the standard of the classics listed below but I’m not going to indulge people who don’t even try.
There really was a time when insults had class.
“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 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)“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time in 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 response“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 Keating“He had delusions of adequacy.” –
Walter Kerr“There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.” –
Jack E. Leonard“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.” –
James Reston (about Richard Nixon)“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” –
Mark Twain“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” –
Mae West“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever…” –
Oscar Wilde“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts… for support rather than illumination. ” –
Andrew Lang“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.” –
Billy Wilder
Esperamos que esteja elucidado.
Insulte. Mas com Qualidade e Inteligência.
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