Subject: Insults (Page 11)

He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.

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

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.

(1919 – 1986) American actor

His [George Bush] popularity rating – his approval rating – with blacks: two percent… two percent… that is somewhere between Mark Fuhrman and sickle cell anemia.

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

(1909 – 1995) American journalist

The English never smash in a face; they merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

(1910 – 1997) American writer

It's great to be with Bill Buckley because you don't have to think; he takes a position and you automatically take the opposite and you know you are right.

(1908 – 2006) Canadian-American economist

In defeat he was unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.

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

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

(1866 – 1944) American writer, newspaper columnist, playwright & humorist

He looks like a dwarf who’s been dipped in a bucket of pubic hair.

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

I like Wagner's music better than any other music; it is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

What makes him think a middle-aged actor, who’s played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

I'd rather be a lamppost in Denver than the mayor of Philadelphia.

American professional boxer

Denis Healey Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

(1917 – ) British politician

What you don't know would make a good book.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

For God's sake, go and tell that young man to take that Rockingham tea service out of his tights.

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

You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor's age by the rings on her fingers.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist

Our loss is their loss.

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

I worship the quicksand he walks in.

(1925 – 2007) humorist & columnist

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

(1910 – 1997) American writer

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

(1872 – 1956) English essayist, parodist & caricaturist