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Verbal Defense

  • She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it. -- Bob Fosse
  • She preserved to the age of fifty-six that contempt for ideas which is normal among boys and girls of fifteen. -- Odell Shepherd (about Louisa May Alcott)
  • She proceeds to dip her little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to squirt the mixture at all her friends. -- Harold Nicholson
  • She ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B. -- Dorothy Parker (about Katherine Hepburn)
  • She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin. -- Heinrich Heine
  • She should get a divorce and settle down. -- Jack Paar
  • She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig. -- Margot Asquith
  • She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. -- Margot Asquith
  • She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered. -- James Matthew Barrie
  • She was a master at making nothing happen very slowly. -- Clifton Fadiman
  • She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers. -- Alexander Woollcott
  • She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. -- Saul Bellow
  • She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork. -- Jonathan Swift
  • So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name. -- Alan Bennett
  • Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. -- Tobias George Smolett
  • Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee later than others. -- Kin Hubbard
  • Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. -- Joseph Heller "Catch-22"
  • Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. -- William Dean Howells
  • Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
  • Stay with me; I want to be alone. -- Joey Adams
  • Teflon brain (nothing sticks.) -- Lily Tomlin
  • Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. -- - Moses Hadas
  • That's not writing, that's typing. -- Truman Capote
  • That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. -- Douglas Adams
  • The best part of you ran down your mother's legs. -- Jackie Gleason
  • The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg. -- Edmund Wilson
  • The finest woman that ever walked the streets. -- Mae West
  • The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle
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