Subject: Insults (Page 5)

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

(1863 – 1945) British politician & statesman

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

I don’t hate you… I just don’t like that you exist.

(1975 – ) American author

The next time anyone asks you ‘What is Bertrand Russell’s Philosophy?’ the correct answer is ‘What year please?’

(1902 – 1989) American philosopher

An acquaintance, describing an unpopular man: He's his own worst enemy.

Adams: Not while I'm around.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist

Don't get insulted, but is your job devoted to spreading ignorance?

He’s so old his social security number is two digits.

The 't' is silent, as in Harlow.

(1864 –1945) Anglo-Scottish socialite, author & wit

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

(1895 – 1972) writer and literary & social critic

[He looks like] an explosion in a pubic hair factory.

(1934 – ) British theater director, author, humorist & medical doctor

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes.

(1900 – 1990) classical composer, teacher, writer & conductor

Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

(1912 – 2006) Romanian-born Canadian writer

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

(1688 – 1744) English poet

He writes his plays for the ages – the ages between five and twelve.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

He would kill his own mother just so that he could use her skin to make a drum to beat his own praises.

(1864 –1945) Anglo-Scottish socialite, author & wit

An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist

Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

(1870 – 1916) British writer

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Ambassador Trentino: I didn’t come here to be insulted!

Rufus T. Firefly: That’s what you think!

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host