Oh snap!

After the civility fandango, I figure it’s time for something light.  Something fun.  So…. what could be more fun than some really snappy put downs?

Just to show that I can admire a brilliant snap. 

I’ll start the ball rolling with 4 great lines.

  1. Moses Montefiore was once at a dinner where someone said

“I’ve just returned from Japan.  Marvelous country.  They have no Jews and they have no pigs”

Montefiore: 

  We must go there together, sir, so they will have one of each

OH SNAP.

  2. Winston Churchill was a master of this.  Here’s one that isn’t as widely known as some.  In a speech, he ended a sentence with a preposition.  Someone objected.  He said

  Sir, that is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put

another from Sir Winston, in conversation with Lady Astor:
Lady Astor: Sir Winston, if you were my husband, I’d put poison in your  tea.
Sir Winston: Lady Astor, if you were my wife, I’d drink it!

OH SNAP!

  3. A little different, but the opening line in a book review of Theodore Roosevelt

  To read a biography of Theodore Roosevelt during the presidency of George
  W. Bush is not a task for the easily depressed.

OH SNAP!

  4. Finally, George Bernard Shaw reacted to a negative review with the following

  Dear Sir
  I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me.  Shortly, it will be behind me.

  Yours

  GBS

OH SNAP!

5. Dorothy Parker reviewing House at Pooh Corner:

  This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly.  It should be thrown with great force.

6. Pierre Trudeau

  I’ve been called worse things by better people

OH SNAP!

So…..tell us more!
Let’s have fun.  To hell with civility  🙂