Joe, you're a dirty son of a bitch but there aretimes when you've got to have a son of a bitch around, and this is one of them.

-Bricker,JohnW(illiam)
c.1953  Comment to Senator  Joseph R McCarthy on rescuing Republic prominence by pressing charges of Communism in government. Recalled in This Fabulous Century (1970).

To Day Ipronuncedawordwhichshould nevercome out of a ladys lips it was that I called John a Impudent Bitch.

-Fleming, Marjory
  'Journal 2' in F Sidgwick (ed)  The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).

I like Hillary because she's kind of a bitch.

-Pagels, Heinz R(udolf)
  In the SundayTimes magazine,18 Apr. Collected as 'Kind of a Bitch:Why I Like Hillary Clinton' in Vamps andTramps (1994).

Upon my honour, I saw a Madonna Standing in a niche Above the door of the private whore Of the world's worst son of a bitch.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
Jotted into the visitor's book ofWilliam Randolph Hearst's house at San Simeon after she had seen a Della Robbia Madonna over the entrance to Marion Davies's bedroom. Quoted in R Hughes Culture of Complaint (1994).

There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilization.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, pt.5.

A four-kind son-of-a-bitch, but the greatest Jew since Jesus Christ.

-Robbins, Colonel
Of LeonTrotsky. Quoted byA J P Taylor in the New Statesman and Nation, 20 Feb1954.