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Verbal Defense

  • He's completely unspoiled by failure. -- Noel Coward
  • He's liked, but he's not well liked. -- Arthur Miller
  • He's the kind of man who picks his friends—to pieces. -- Mae West
  • He's the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms. -- Mamie Van Doren (about Warren Beatty)
  • He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head. -- Margot Asquith
  • He can't help it - he was born with a silver foot in his mouth. -- Ann Richards (about George Bush)
  • He could never see a belt without hitting below it. -- Margot Asquith
  • He couldn't ad-lib a fart after a baked-bean dinner. -- Johnny Carson (about Chevy Chase)
  • He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating. -- Ayn Rand
  • He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it. -- T.S. Eliot (about Henry James)
  • He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser. -- George C. Scott
  • He had delusions of adequacy. -- Walter Kerr
  • e has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. -- Winston Churchill
  • He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty. -- Thomas P. Gore
  • He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. -- Oscar Wilde
  • He has no more backbone than a chocolate éclair. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. -- David Lloyd George
  • He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. -- Robert Redford
  • He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. -- Aneurin Bevan (about Neville Chamberlain)
  • He has turned almost alarmingly blond - he's gone past platinum, he must be plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth. -- Pauline Kael (about Robert Redford)
  • He has Van Gogh's ear for music. -- Billy Wilder
  • He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him. -- Eddie Cantor
  • He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front. -- Leonard Louis Levinson
  • He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue. -- Andrew Lang
  • He is a self-made man who worships his creator. -- John Bright
  • He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright. -- Samuel Butler
  • He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea and that was wrong. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge
  • He was humane but not human. -- E E Cummings (about Ezra Pound)
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