Current politicians have slipped. But we all know people these can be applied to.
A member of Parliament to Disraeli:
"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.”
"That depends, Sir, " said Disraeli,
"whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
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"He had delusions of adequacy ."
-Walter Kerr
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"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill
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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
-Clarence Darrow
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"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
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"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
-Moses Hadas
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"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
-Mark Twain
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"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
-Oscar Wilde
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"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
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"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
-Stephen Bishop
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"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
-John Bright
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"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
-Irvin S. Cobb
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"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
-Samuel Johnson
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"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
- Paul Keating
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"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
-Charles, Count Talleyrand
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"He loves nature , in spite of what it did to him."
-Forrest Tucker
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"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
-Mark Twain
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"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
-Mae West
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
-Oscar Wilde
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"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination."
-Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
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"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
-Billy Wilder
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"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it."
-Groucho Marx
