Petites Batailles Antimodernes

Désolé, c'est en anglais, mais quel style...

"He had delusions of adequacy.." - Walter Kerr

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." -
Winston Churchill

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the
dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

"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

"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

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." -
Charles, Count Talleyrand

"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