These glorious insults are from an era when cleverness with words was still valued....unlike now, where the art of the put-down and the come-back has been reduced to primarily questioning parentage and responding with descriptors of common bodily functions! Enjoy.

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The exchange between Churchill &Lady Astor: She said, 'If you were my husband I'd give you poison,' and he said, 'If you were my wife, I'd gladly drink it.'

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.'

'He had delusions of adequacy.' - Walter Kerr

'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).

'Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?' - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

'Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.' - Moses Hadas

'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

'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 Keating

'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

'His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.' - Mae West

'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

Is it counted as an insult ? " I love you as well as a dog loves fleas. "

Posted by literature [ 7 January 2009 | 4:35PM Is it counted as an insult ? " I love you as well as a dog loves fleas. "

Not so mucuh as an insult. But it's a lot more clever than seeing some child generlising in a forum thread and branding every 'farang' Guy on TF an idiot.

Love them all! very classy

Brilliant !

Posted by Stu_thailand [ 7 January 2009 | 5:09PM ]

Not so mucuh as an insult. But it's a lot more clever than seeing some child generlising in a forum thread and branding every 'farang' Guy on TF an idiot.

I dont know who that child is but I would not say 'every' farang Guy as an idiot.The word 'many' is more appropriate. Actually, 'an idiot' is not the word that I 'd like to use.

Perhaps we can all agree that the term "TF moron" is not gender-specific . . .

Posted by trite_n_true [ 7 January 2009 | 8:20PM ]

Perhaps we can all agree that the term "TF moron" is not gender-specific . .

If you carefully read what I wrote in the thread, you would see its specific for the man whom I mentioned in the thread and I didn't not genralize ALL of TF GUYS ...sigh ¡Ô¹»Ù¹Ãéù·éç¡Ñ¹¨ÃÔ§

. . . and that the term can be applied not only in relationship matters, but also in instances of basic understanding . . .