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Verbal Defense

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  • The greatest thing since they reinvented unsliced bread. -- William Keegan
  • The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind. -- Joseph Stilwell
  • The tautness of his face sours ripe grapes. -- William Shakespeare
  • The triumph of sugar over diabetes. -- George Jean Nathan
  • The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him. -- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
  • He is as good as his word - and his word is no good. -- Seamus MacManus
  • He is brilliant—to the top of his boots. -- David Lloyd George
  • The going got weird and he turned pro.
  • The thing that terrifies me the most is that someone might hate me as much as I loathe you.
  • He is just about the nastiest little man I've ever known. He struts sitting down. -- Lillian Dykstra (about Thomas Dewey)
  • He is mad, bad and dangerous to know. -- Lady Caroline Lamb
  • He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others. -- Samuel Johnson
  • He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. -- H. H. Munro
  • He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. -- Paul Keating
  • He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time. -- Eugene Field
  • He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea. -- John Steinbeck
  • He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease. -- Henry James
  • He is the very pineapple of politeness. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • He knows so little and knows it so fluently. -- Ellen Glasgow
  • He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. -- Raymond Chandler
  • He looked like a half-melted rubber bulldog. -- John Simon
  • He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (about Calvin Coolidge)
  • He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. -- Forrest Tucker
  • He made enemies as naturally as soap makes suds. -- Percival Wilde
  • He makes a July's day short as December. -- William Shakespeare
  • He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously. -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own. -- Margaret Halsey

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