Reply #40: W.C. Fields' spin on the same concept [View All]

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Pretty sure it's from "The Bank Dick":

Outraged bluenose: "You're drunk!"

Fields: "And you're crazy. But I'll be sober tomorrow, and you'll be crazy the rest of your life."

Much better delivered in his nasal drawl than read on paper. Wonder who used it first, Churchill or Fields?

My favorite: Dorothy Parker and Clare Booth Luce are about to enter a room at the same time. As she steps aside to let Parker go first Luce smirks, "Age before beauty."

As she sweeps past Luce into the room Parker answers, "Pearls before swine."

Love it!