Subject: Insults (Page 25)

I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics.

(1909 – 1976) American lyricist, songwriter & singer

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

(1910 – 1997) American writer

I liked your opera… I think I will set it to music.

(1770 – 1827) German composer & pianist

The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

They want to play the blues so badly… and that's how they play it – badly!

American bluesman

There goes the original good time that’s been had by all.

(1908–1960) British film actress

When he does smile, he looks as if he's just evicted a widow.

(1932 – 1997) newspaper columnist

He would kill his own mother just so that he could use her skin to make a drum to beat his own praises.

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

When his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

(1910 – 1997) American writer

I described you in terms which were positively glowing, which is exactly how I’d like to see you in Hell.

(1958 – ) American actress, musician & dancer

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you… he really is an idiot.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

She has a face that belongs to the sea and the wind, with large rocking-horse nostrils and teeth that you just know bite an apple every day.

(1904 – 1980) English photographer, interior, stage & costume designer

Cecil B. DeMille was De phony and De hypocrite of all time.

(1920 – 1985 Russian-born American actor of stage & film

[businesman] Sir Martin Sorrell is more arrogant than the entire French nation put together.


businessman & CEO

That’s it, laugh it up; you’re making $50 million a year and your poor parents are back in Nebraska eating locusts for dinner.

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

He was humane but not human.

(1894 – 1962) American poet, painter, essayist, author & playwright

I’ve just learned about his illness; let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.

(1876 – 1944) American author, humorist & columnist

The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered.

(1925 – 2005) television host

Is she fat? … Her favorite food is seconds.

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

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

(1912 – 2006) Romanian-born Canadian writer