Subject: Insults

She has the answer to everything and the solution to nothing.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

You have delighted us long enough.

(1775 – 1817) English novelist

He looks as though he’s been weaned on a pickle.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

Virginia Woolf’s writing is no more than glamorous knitting; I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

(1887 – 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist & poet

Gee, what a terrific party… later on we’ll get some fluid and embalm each other.

(1927 – 2018) playwright & screenwriter

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Elizabeth, you gotta stop calling me… I’m going with someone.

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

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I; never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

Peggy Noonan (1950 – ) American author & columnist

Art is long and life is short; here is evidently the explanation of a Brahms symphony.

You had to stand in line to hate him.

(1885 – 1966) American actress & gossip columnist

It is not necessary to have relatives in Kansas City to be unhappy.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I could never understand what Sir Godfrey Tearle saw in Jill Bennett, until I saw her at the Caprice eating corn on the cob.

(1913 – 1991) Australian actress

He is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

(1897 – 1960) Welsh labor leader & politician

He puts the 'goober' in 'gubernatorial.’

(1943 – ) U.S. agriculture commissioner, columnist, activist & author

He has become the oldest living cute boy in the world.

(1953 – ) American author, journalist & opinion columnist

George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill: Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend – if you have one.

Churchill’s reply: Impossible to be present for the first performance; will attend second – if there is one.

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

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

You look like the kind of woman who dates guys in prison.

(1983 – ) American comedian

Australia's gift to insomniacs; it's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.

(1947 – 1979) American singer

He is racist, he's homophobic, he's xenophobic and he's a sexist; he's the perfect Republican candidate.

(1940 – ) talk radio host, political commentator and author

There but for the grace of God, goes God.

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