How to be Insulting about Public Figures

On Clement Atlee:

'A modest little man with much to be modest about.' — Sir Winston Churchill

'Reminds me of nothing so much as a dead fish before it has had time to stiffen.' — George Orwell

On Gerald Ford:

'He looks like the guy in a science fiction movie who is the first to see the Creature.' — David Frye

On Neville Chamberlain:

'He might make an adequate Lord Mayor of Birmingham — in a lean year.' — David Lloyd George

One commentator said of the American presidency:

'Roosevelt proved that a man could be President for life; Truman proved that anybody could be President; and Eisenhower proved you don't need to have a President.'

When Dorothy Parker was told that Calvin Coolidge had died, she asked:

'How can they tell?'