Winston Churchill vs. Lady Astor
Calvin Coolidge vs. an audience member
Gandhi vs. a reporter
Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas
(After Douglas called him “two-faced” during a debate)
Winston Churchill vs. a member of Parliament
Miriam Hopkins vs. an unknown singer
Ilka Chase vs. an unknown actress
Calvin Coolidge vs. some lady at a White House dinner
Dorothy Parker vs. a drunk man
Henry Clay vs. Thomas Reed
Winston Churchill vs. Bessie Braddock
Noel Coward vs. Edna Ferber
Lewis Morris vs. Oscar Wilde
Pericles vs. Alcibiades
Reverend Edward Everett Hale vs. The U.S. Senate
Abraham Lincoln vs. a foreign diplomat
Wonderful. Enjoyed reading them.
Great Zingers in History Vol. IV
As an aside, Jon Stewart altered history a bit with Calvin Coolidge in “America: The Book.” When the dinner guest claimed she made a bet against someone who thought it was impossible to get more than two words out of Coolidge, Stewart wrote that the President replied, “F— you.”