FAVORITE HISTORICAL INSULTS

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"I feel very old sometimes...I carry on and would not like to die before having emptied a few more buckets of shit on the heads of my fellow men."

--Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), author of MADAME BOVARY

if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

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At a formal dinner,
Woman: Mr. Churchill, you are drunk!
Winston Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. In the morning I will be sober.

Matt

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"A monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream."

--That God-damned, muddle-headed hippy, Hunter Thompson on Richard Nixon. I'm glad he's dead (both of them).

if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

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"Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards."

--Theodore Dreiser (American novelist), quoting an unnamed newspaper editor.

if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

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At a formal dinner,
Woman: Mr. Churchill, you are drunk!
Winston Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. In the morning I will be sober.

I thought that was a W C Fields Quote

You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

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"Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of Mine,
Senator, you're No Jack Kennedy"
Vice presidential Candidate Lloyd Bentsen, to eventual Vice Presidential Victor, Dan Quayle, at a televised V P debate...1988

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I think this sort of qualifies...

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board." -Thoreau

but... one of my favorite insults is this...

"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife...

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" You're the kind of person that would teabag a homeless dude "

Me circa 1999

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At a formal dinner,
Woman: Mr. Churchill, you are drunk!
Winston Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. In the morning I will be sober.

I thought that was a W C Fields Quote

Nope. If I recall correctly the woman was called Lady Astor.
On another occasion:
Lady Astor: Mr. Churchill If you were my husband I would poison your food!
Winston Churchill: Madam, If you were my wife, I would eat it.

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"you're not an architect, you're an interior designer"
-Mies Van der Rohe to an architecture student at critique

'Celebrate we will, cause life is short but sweet for certain'

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This one popped up on quote of the day today:

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke