Great Notable’s Quotes   

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)

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 wasnt 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 response to George Bernard Shaw quote above.

 I feel so miserable without you; its 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. Lets hope its 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

He had delusions of adequacy. - Walter Kerr

Theres nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure. - Jack E. Leonard

 He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. - Robert Redford

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. - Thomas Brackett Reed

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears. 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

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. - Forrest Tucker

 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