Subject: Insults (Page 11)

If she was cast as Lady Godiva the horse would steal the show.

He stood on the flat road to heaven and buttered slides to hell for all the rest.

(1841 – 1935) American jurist & Supreme Court justice

Garfield has shown that he is not possessed of the backbone of an angleworm.

(1822 – 1885) 18th U.S. president & army general

Failure has gone to his head.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

He's about as sexy as a pissing toad.

(1924 – 1984) American author

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

Damn your nose, madam… there’s no end to it!

(1727 – 1788) English painter

I never liked him and I always will.

I worship the quicksand he walks in.

(1925 – 2007) humorist & columnist

He appears to have been called 'The Little Giant' more because he was little than because he was a giant.

(1903 – 1989) American writer

You're a mouse studying to be a rat.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

I could dance with you until the cows come home… on second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I treasure every moment that I do not see her.

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

The little man on top of the wedding cake.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

It's like cuddling with a Butterball turkey.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

He hasn’t an enemy in the world – but all his friends hate him.

(1892 – 1964) singer, dancer, comedian, actor & songwriter

The only time he opens his mouth is to change feet.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

Never enter a battle of wits unarmed.

Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

Neither am I.

(1937 – 1995) English satirist, writer & comedian

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

(1886 – 1963) literary critic, biographer & historian