“Plato
was a bore.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Nietzsche
was stupid and abnormal.”
Leo Tolstoy
“I’m
not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Hemingway
was a jerk.”
Harold Robbins
“How
can I lose to such an idiot?”
A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich
“Thank
you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time
reading it.”
Moses Hades
“He
can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.”
Abraham Lincoln
“He
has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“I’ve
just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.”
Irvin S. Cobb
“I
worship the quicksand he walks in.”
Art Buchwald
“Mr.
Churchill, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea!”
“And if you were my wife, I would drink it.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“You
are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk.”
“Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly
and disgustingly fat. But tomorrow morning I, Winston Churchill, will
be sober.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“His
ignorance is encyclopedic.”
Abba Eban