"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one." "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." "Poor fellow. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." "He is a self-made man and worships his creator." "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." "He had delusions of adequacy" "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." "He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." "A modest little person, with much to be modest about." "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any one I know." "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." |