When insults had real class

[Mark]

It still works today too which makes it all the better.

[semi-pro waster]

Good list there, here are a few more (small note, although it might look like it I'm not anti-American, it just happens there are lots of good quotes about them):

"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can." - Cullen Hightower

"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it." - George Bernard Shaw

"Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done." - Fred Allan

"It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it." - Mark Twain

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." - Oscar Wilde

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." - Gore Vidal

"The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives." - Winston Churchill

"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life." - James M. Barrie

"I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts." - Charles Rosin

"When I realise I'm wrong, I change my mind. What do you do, Sir?" - John Maynard Keynes

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." - Flannery O'Connor

"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are." - Gore Vidal

"My advice to you is to get married: if you can find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates

"There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers." - William James

"I have read your book and much like it." - Moses Hadas