Maryannaville collected some great quotes for her blog post When Insults Had Class. I notice almost all were from or about men.
I am not insulted.
Here are some of my favorites, with a couple others I found.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
~ Clarence Darrow
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
~ Oscar Wilde
Shall we let them enjoy themselves a little longer, or had we better have your speech?
~ Unknown host asked this of Joseph Chamberlain
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
~ Thomas Brackett Reed
I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.
~ Groucho Marx
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
~ Winston Churchill
He is a self-made man and worships his creator.
~ John Bright
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it."
A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
~ Winston Churchill
I desire that we be better strangers.
~ Shakespeare, From As you like it
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
~ William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
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 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 to Bernard Shaw
I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.
~ Irvin S. Cobb
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
Source - When Insults Had Class