Before "Fuck" Was Every Other Word In A Sentence!
 

These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.


"He had delusions of adequacy."
- Walter Kerr

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
- Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?'
- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
- Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
- Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one."
- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - - Winston Churchill, in response.

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
- Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
- John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
- Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
- Paul Keating

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
- Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.."
- Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
- Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
- Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination."
- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx

'There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.'
- Jack E. Leonard

'He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.'
- Robert Redford

'They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.'
- Thomas Brackett Reed

'He has Van Gogh's ear for music.'
- Billy Wilder

'He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.'
- Abraham Lincoln

'A modest little person, with much to be modest about. '
- Winston Churchill

The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:

She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison."

He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

Fuck you.

There you go, a complete sentence.

K, thanks

using "Like" as every other word is that any better?

Are you comparing Winston Churchill Mark Twain & Oscar Wilde to people who post on GFY? Or are you saying that these men never used the word fuck?
Or that people of their stature can't or don't make witty insults like the ones you posted ? What is the point of this post?

yes, what is the point of this post?

You obviously never watched "Deadwood" on HBO
lol

EVERY word was fuck. And every other word was "cocksucker"

I do agree that proper language trumps vulgarity any day of the week. But I don't believe in romanticized versions of the past. I'm positive that "ordinary" people always cursed heavily.

I just thought it was interesting and sort of funny and in no way intended to be a reflection on any GFY members. I think there has been a degradation of the language though, in that we may have lost some of the beauty of it.

Saw every episode of "Deadwood" and got realy pissed off when they cancelled it! If you notice though, in "Deadwood", even the town dummies spoke in the flowery, sort of Victorian language usages of the time, which usages were much more communicative and descriptive that what we use today, I think. Even the not-so-common cursed heavily all the time, just not in public as we do toady. Not saying they were better, only different.

No; no comparisons made or intended. See, all of these comments were made in public and if you read between the lines, these guys are indeed telling each other to go fuck themselves but in a manner which was acceptable at the time. Not saying it's any better that way; as I wrote; I just found the quotations interesting.

Of course, I also like these:

Top 10 times in History when the "F" word was most appropriately used...

10. "What the fuck was that?"- The Mayor of Hiroshima

9. "Where the fuck did all these Indians come from?"- General Custer

8. "Any fucking idiot could understand that."- Albert Einstein

7. "It does SO fucking look like her!"- Pablo Picasso

6. "How the fuck did you work that out?"- Pythagoras

5. "You want WHAT on the fucking ceiling?"- Michaelangelo

4. "Where the Fuck are we?"- Amelia Earhart

3. "Scattered fucking showers...my ass!"- Noah

2. "I need this parade like I need a fucking hole in my head!"- JFK

1. "Aw, c'mon, who the fuck is going to find out?"- Bill Clinton

"I came from a real tough neighborhood. In the library the sign says 'shut the fuck up!"
— Rodney Dangerfield

"Play it fuckin' loud!"
— Bob Dylan

"Don't fuck with me, fellas. This cowgirl has been to the rodeo before."
— Joan Crawford

"what kind of fuckery is this?"
— Amy Winehouse

"The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said."
— Samuel Beckett

Funny video is here:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KANukZsWD9Q

What the fuck are you fucking about here yo...

Winston Churchill was a great wit!