The Wittiest Comebacks Of All Time (32 pics)
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Calvin Coolidge Vs. Some Random Lady At A White House Dinner
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Oscar Wilde Vs. Lewis Morris
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Morris had just been passed over for the Poet Laureateship.
Winston Churchill Vs. George Bernard Shaw
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Winston Churchill Vs. Lady Astor
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Calvin Coolidge Vs. An Opera Singer
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Muhammad Ali Vs. Joe Frazier
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Winston Churchill Vs. A Member Of Parliament
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Winston Churchill Vs. Bessie Braddock
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Vs. An Admirer
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Miriam Hopkins Vs. An Anonymous Singer
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Ilka Chase Vs. An Anonymous Actress
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John Wilkes Vs. John Montagu
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Mohandas Gandhi Vs. Western Civilization
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Edna Ferber Vs. Noel Coward
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Coward was remarking upon the fact that Ferber was wearing a tailored suit.
James McNeill Whistler Vs. Oscar Wilde
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After Whistler had made a particularly witty observation.
Pierre Trudeau Vs. Richard Nixon
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Upon hearing that Nixon had called him an asshole.
Thomas Reed Vs. Henry Clay
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Earnest Hemingway Vs. William Faulkner
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John Barrymore Vs. A Woman In The Lady's Room
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Barrymore was drunkenly urinating in the wrong bathroom, and turned to face his accuser, penis in hand.
Robert Benchley Vs. A Man In Uniform
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Niels Bohr Vs. A Reporter
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Groucho Marx Vs. A Contestant on "You Bet Your Life"
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After the contestant revealed that he was a father of 10.
Henry Clay Vs. Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster
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After seeing a pack of mules walk by.
Alcibiades Vs. Pericles
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Abraham Lincoln Vs. Stephen Douglas
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After Douglas called him "two-faced" during a debate:
Bill Clinton Vs. Dan Quayle
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After Quayle revealed that he planned to be "a pit bull" in the 1992 campaign against Clinton and Gore.
Reverend Edward Everett Hale Vs. The U.S. Senate
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When asked if he prayed for the Senators.
Senator Fritz Hollings Vs. Henry McMastor
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When challenged by his Republican opponent during a televised debate to take a drug test.
NY Mayor Ed Koch Vs. Andrew Kirtzman
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After the reporter insisted on pressing a point about an inconsistent statement Koch had made.
Abraham Lincoln Vs. A Foreign Diplomat
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After the diplomat found Lincoln polishing his boots in his office.
Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller Vs. An Attendee At A Church Conference
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After the man ranted against university education and thanked God that he had never been corrupted by going to college.
Dorothy Parker Vs. New Yorker Editor Harold Ross
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Parker had been on her honeymoon, when Harold Ross interrupted her to ask why she was late with a book review.
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