Subject: Insults (Page 13)

The Incredible Sulk.

(1949 – ) British politician & author

Oscar Wilde's talent seems to me to be essentially rootless, something growing in glass on a little water.

(1852 – 1933) Irish writer, poet, art critic & dramatist

Everyone has the right to be stupid but you’re abusing the priviledge.

A singer: You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.

Hopkins: That’s wonderful; and what did you do with the money?

(1902 – 1972) American actress

All Englishmen talk as if they’ve got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

(1856 – 1939) Austrian neurologist, father of psychoanalysis

Bambi with testosterone.

(1959 – ) film critic

A little emasculated mass of inanity.

(1858 – 1919) 26th U.S. president

Calvin Coolidge didn’t say much, and when he did, he didn’t say much.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

And this is your grandson, huh? Oh, wonderful boy! Yeah, he’s a good boy. Now I know why tigers eat their young.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

His favorite exercise is climbing tall people.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

When Charlie Finley had his heart operation it took eight hours…. seven just to find his heart.

professional baseball pitcher

[Adlai] Stevenson was a man who could never make up his mind… whether he had to go to the bathroom or not.

(1884 – 1972) 33rd U.S. president

He sounds like he's got a brick dangling from his willy, and a food-mixer making purée of his tonsils.

British music journalist, author & broadcaster

There never was an impostor so hateful, a blockhead so stupid, a crank so variously and offensively daft… he makes me tired.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

He [Bernard Shaw] hasn’t an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

She may very well pass for forty three… in the dusk with the light behind her.

(1836 – 1911) English dramatist, librettist, poet & illustrator

[Walking Tall] stars The Rock, but The Wood might be a better description of his performance.

film reviewer & critic

She’s so hairy – when she lifted up her arm I thought it was Tina Turner in her armpit.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry – for the clothes.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

This enormous dunghill.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist