Playwright Harold Pinter’s response to a fundraising dinner invitation also works for all unwanted invitations

Nobel Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, director and actor Harold Pinter certainly had a gift with words – as shown in his response to this fundraising dinner invitation.

My spirit animal is Harold Pinter pic.twitter.com/FCfDPvFbF8

— Agnes (@agnesfrim) October 27, 2017

The oddest thing about that is the phrase "All the best".

— Simon Coward (@Simon_Coward) October 27, 2017

How I'm going to decline all future invites – "I'd rather die,
…… all the best" !!!

— Uma Nayer (@UmaNayer) October 27, 2017

It’s basically a more polite version of “Fuck off. Cheers!”

And while we’re on the subject of Pinter, time to remember that “In Greggs” is the finest bit of dialogue he never wrote.

‘In Greggs’ by Harold Pinter just never gets old for me pic.twitter.com/828Ne22x5u

— Mhairi McFarlane (@MhairiMcF) August 2, 2017