“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, I will attend the second…If there is one.”
- Winston Churchill, in response.
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
“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.”
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
Lol. This is one of the things that cost nothing that global warming lemmings can do today to save the planet. Plus saves them money they can use towards buying an electric vehicle.
@glasspilot - I saw the Mae West film “She Done Him Wrong” ,when it was on TV a number of years ago, where she made that humorous comment. The original line from that movie was “Is that a gun (or pistol) in your pocket or are you just happy to see me” but there have been a number of variations of it over the years.
