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Verbal Defense

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  • He was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. -- William Faulkner
  • He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. -- Charles Kingsley
  • He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
  • He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes. -- Molly Irvins
  • He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes. -- Fred Allen
  • He was trying to save both his faces. -- John Gunther
  • He writes his plays for the ages--the ages between five and twelve. -- George Nathan (about George Bernard Shaw)
  • He'd make a lovely corpse. -- Charles Dickens
  • He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices. -- Gore Vidal (about Truman Capote)
  • Her body has gone to her head. -- Barbara Stanwyck (about Marilyn Monroe)
  • Her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. -- Woody Allen
  • Her only flair is in her nostrils. -- Pauline Kael
  • Her skin was white as leprosy. -- S. T. Coleridge
  • Her voice sounded like an eagle being goosed. -- Ralph Novak
  • His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open. -- Howard Hughes ( about Clark Gable)
  • His face was filled with broken commandments. -- John Masefield
  • His features resembled a fossilized wash rag. -- Alan Brien
  • His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons. -- Robin Williams
  • His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. -- Mark Twain
  • His ignorance is encyclopedic. -- Abba Eban
  • His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it. -- F. H. Bradley
  • His mind is so open that the wind whistles through it. -- Heywood Braun
  • His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap. -- Irving Stone (about William Jennings Bryan)
  • His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. -- Mae West
  • His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin. -- John Philpot Curran
  • His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. -- Edmund Wilson (about Evelyn Waugh)
  • His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with. -- Charles Lamb
  • I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. -- Woody Allen
  • I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork. -- Groucho Marx

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