Beth Williamson’s Blog

I got this yesterday from the incomparable Diane Charles Linford, another Loose Id author… Fun stuff! I love it!

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’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But wasn’t it.”   
Groucho Marx

“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 reply