Subject: Insults

In defeat he was unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.

(1872 – 1953) British translator, arts patron & civil servant

Why don't you trade in your head for a bowling ball?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

If you said 'irony' to Clay, he'd look down at his shirt and think it needed pressing.

(1957 – ) American actor, comedian, writer & director

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

(1890 – 1960) journalist, author & dramatist

In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.

(1919 – 2010 ) England author

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common: they both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

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

He's thin as piss on a hot rock.

(1908 – 1985) U.S. senator (Indiana)

Walter Mondale has all the charisma of:a speed bump.

(1952 – ) American political satirist

She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.

(1895 – 1956) Armenian essayist, novelist, playwright, & scriptwriter

[George] Bernard Shaw has discovered himself, and gave ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

(1870 – 1916) British writer

You can’t get Negro help like that, anymore… wow, to have a guy who can sing, dance – and dust!

(1926 – 2017) American stand-up comedian & actor

Sleeping with George Michael would be like having sex with a groundhog.

George Alan O'Dowd (1961 – ) British singer-songwriter

Yeah, I tried to see it from your point of view, but I couldn’t get my head that far up my ass.

(1965 – ) comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer & director

The first known case of a rat joining a sinking ship.

The little man on top of the wedding cake.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

Truman Capote's death was a good career move.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

Even the deaf would be traumatized by prolonged exposure to the most hideous croak in Western culture; Richards' voice is simply horrible.

(1950 – ) journalist & columnist

I can't wait to get Nick's [DiPaolo's] new comedy album, its called “Stop me if you heard this in junior high school.”

(1972 – ) stand-up comedian & actor

Apparently the understudy had to go because of her throat; I suppose someone threatened to cut it.

(1865-1940) English actress