{"id":9596,"date":"2010-08-21T10:04:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T14:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9596"},"modified":"2010-08-21T10:04:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T14:04:07","slug":"vituperative-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/vituperative-gems\/","title":{"rendered":"Vituperative Gems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2010\/08\/20\/howard-richler-the-art-of-creative-insulting\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2022\u00a0 Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it. (Margot Asquith)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 [Benjamin Disraeli]\u00a0 is a self-made man and worships his creator. (John Bright)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 I only wish I knew [Bill Vander Zalm] before his lobotomy. (Kim Campbell)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 [Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. (Winston Churchill)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 Clement Attlee is a modest man, who has a good deal to be modest about. (Winston Churchill)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 [William Gladstone] is a sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his verbosity. (Benjamin Disraeli)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 In a disastrous fire in president Reagan\u2019s library both books were burned. And the tragedy is he hadn\u2019t finished colouring one. (Jonathan Hunt)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 [Gerald Ford] is so dumb he can\u2019t fart and chew gum at the same time. (Lyndon Baines Johnson)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 He compresses the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. (Abraham Lincoln)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit. (David Lloyd George)<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 \u00a0William Shakespeare &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 His brain is as dry as the remaining biscuit after voyage. (As You Like It)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 [You are] one that converses more with the buttock of the night than with the forehead of the morning. (Coriolanus)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 God has given you one face and you make yourself another. (Hamlet)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 What is this quintessence of dust? (Hamlet)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! (King Lear)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 [You are] an index and prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts. (Othello)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 Ajax, that wears his brain on his belly and his guts in his head. He hath not so much brain as earwax. (Troilus and Cressida)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A few more random tidbits:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others. &#8211; Samuel Johnson<\/li>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. &#8211; March Twain<\/li>\n<li>Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go &#8211; Oscar Wilde<\/li>\n<li>He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends &#8211; Oscar Wilde<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A lost art these days, I fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: \u2022\u00a0 Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it. (Margot Asquith) \u2022\u00a0 [Benjamin Disraeli]\u00a0 is a self-made man and worships his creator. 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