Insults with class #2

• William Faulkner about Ernest Hemingway: "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
• Moses Hadas: "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
• Mark Twain: "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
• Oscar Wilde: "He has no enemies, but it intensely disliked by his friends."
• George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill: "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend if you have one."
• Churchill responded: "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second ... if there is one."