"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure"

[madinmaryland]

Clarence Darrow from his 1932 memoir. I have found this quite apt in the recent days.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. I am looking forward to one obituary in particulary

[PJMcK]

2. Bette Davis has my favorite

"You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good."

Make your own substitutions for Ms. Crawford.


ETA: The great composer, Stephen Sondheim, once told me, “Never speak ill of the living. Wait till they’re dead and cannot respond.”

[struggle4progress]

3. "(We) always meet on effusively affectionate terms; and yet ... if I had his nuts in a steel trap

I would shut out all human succor and watch that trap till he died"

-- Samuel Clemens on a business partner