Subject: Insults (Page 27)

I see the pain on your face when you say the word intellectual, because it has so many syllables in it.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist

Boy George is all England needs – another queen who can't dress.

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

He has so much brain and so little beauty.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

He got a reputation as a great actor by just thinking hard about the next line.

(1894 – 1982) American film director, film producer & screenwriter

If you live in Birmingham [England], then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.


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

Esther, you wouldn’t want a drink, because you are a drink… a zombie!.

(1922 – 1991) American comedian

If there’s ever a price on your head – take it.

Who picks your clothes – Stevie Wonder?

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

If ever a single person was living proof that intelligence is a meaningless quality without modest common sense, it was Susan Sontag.

(1947 – ) English-born Irish journalist & writer

He makes a Macy's Thanksgiving Day float look ridiculous.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

[George Bush] has the look about him of someone who might sit up and yip for a Dog Yummie.

(1932 – 1997) newspaper columnist

He only had one idea and that was wrong.

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

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

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music?

(1813 – 1883) German composer, conductor, theatre director & essayist

He has a bungalow mind.

(1856 – 1924) 28th U.S. president & politician

You're a parasite for sore eyes.

(1897 – 1960) Russian-born American film director, actor & producer

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child; just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic

His favorite exercise is climbing tall people.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

I can't believe that out of 100,000 sperm, you were the quickest.

American comedian

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

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist