literate sarcasm

[medeak]

>>Subject: Literate sarcasm
>>
>>Sarcasm from People with Brains
>>
>>
>>I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
>>- Stephen Bishop
>>
>>"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 is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in
>>others."
>>- Samuel Johnson
>>
>>"He had delusions of adequacy."
>>- Walter Kerr
>>
>>"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I
>>know."
>>- Abraham Lincoln
>>
>>"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
>>- Groucho Marx
>>
>>"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of
>>human knowledge"
>>- Thomas Brackett Reed
>>
>>"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but
>>by diligent hard work, he overcame them."
>>- James Reston (about Richard Nixon)
>>
>>"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded
>>easily."
>>- Charles, Count Talleyrand
>>
>>"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I
>>approved of 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 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 reply
>>
>>"A sheep in sheep's clothing."
>>- Winston Churchill, on Clement Atlee
>>
>>"There but for the grace of God, goes God."
>>- Winston Churchill, on Stafford Cripps
>>
>>"He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked
>>himself upand hurried on as if nothing had happened."
>>- Winston Churchill, on Stanley Baldwin

[reprobate]

1. A favor please, Medeak. I once had the URL for that site, I believe,

somehow lost it. If that's the same one. Could you please post the URL for it? I'd like to refer back to it from time to time.

It's a great place for intelligent putddowns.

[medeak]

2. apologies

just an email forwarded on

[reprobate]

4. Here's a link to the site I was thinking of:

Many good ones HERE

[RC]

3. google is your friend. "literate sarcasm"

http://www.progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=386

[medeak]

5. that's my post! LOL