Noel Coward, always the witty turn of phrase
During a dinner party, the Viscountess Lady Astor approached Winston Churchill who had been imbibing perhaps a bit too much scotch.
"Why, Winston," she exclaimed, "you are intoxicated!"
To which Churchill raised an eyebrow and replied, "go fuck yourself you fat piece of shit."
"Why, Winston," she exclaimed, "you are intoxicated!"
To which Churchill raised an eyebrow and replied, "go fuck yourself you fat piece of shit."
At one memorable meeting of the Algonquin Round Table, Robert Benchley, George F. Kaufman, and Harold Ross were arguing the artistic merits of Picasso.
Dorothy Parker took a sip of her martini and turned slowly to the three, and quipped, "shut the fuck up you assholes."
Dorothy Parker took a sip of her martini and turned slowly to the three, and quipped, "shut the fuck up you assholes."
Describing her home town of Oakland, California, Gertrude Stein famously said, "geezus, what a shithole."
During the wild "Annees Folles" of 1920s Paris, Hemingway, Cole Porter, and Jean Cocteau were dining at Josephine Baker's Chez Josephine on the Left Bank, when Coco Chanel walked by.
"Stop staring at my tits you drunk pervs," she remarked.
"Stop staring at my tits you drunk pervs," she remarked.
In the heyday of the Bauhaus, Le Corbusier was in New York being feted by Gotham's intelligentsia, when he saw the suddenly out-of-fashion Frank Lloyd Wright in a limousine.
Corbu, rapped on the window of the car, which Wright rolled down.
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Corbu, rapped on the window of the car, which Wright rolled down.
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"Oh Maestro, I've long admired your work!" Le Corbusier exuded.
"Fuck you, four eyes," replied Wright, who proceeded to beat the shit out of him with his elegant walking stick.
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"Fuck you, four eyes," replied Wright, who proceeded to beat the shit out of him with his elegant walking stick.
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