Subject: Insults (Page 28)

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Insults Reviews/Criticism

[He] is the only bull who carries his china shop with him.

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

I think of Trump as Hitler without the warmth.

(1955 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor
Insults

Howard Cosell is nobody’s fool. He’s everybody’s fool.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Insults Sports

He sang like a hinge.

(1908 – 1984) American actress & singer
Entertainment Insults

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

(1857 – 1938) American lawyer
Insults

It must have been tough on your mother, not having any children.

(1911 – 1995) American actress, dancer & singer
Insults TV/Movie Quotes

Alexander Woollcott to Franklin Adams: What is so rare as a Woollcott first edition?
Adams reply: A Woollcott second edition.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist
Insults

You're like a pay toilet, aren't you? … you don't give a shit for nothing.

(1905 – 1976) industrialist, aviator, engineer, film producer & philanthropist
Insults

If you don’t want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president
Insults

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Appearance Insults

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Insults Reading/Writing

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common: they both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

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

A large shaggy dog unchained scouring the beaches of the world and baying at the moon.

(1850 – 1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist & travel writer
Insults

He's so fat, he can be his own running mate.

(1925 – 2005) television host
Appearance Body Fat Insults

His smile is like the silver fittings on a coffin.

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

[boxing promoter] Bob Arum is one of the worst people in the western hemisphere. I don't know the eastern hemisphere very well, but I suspect he'd be one of the worst people there too, if he went.

boxing manager & trainer
Boxing Insults Sports

She was never really charming until she died.

(195/185–159 BC) playwright of the Roman Republic
Insults

… as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president
Insults Reviews/Criticism

Barbara and I celebrated our 51st wedding anniversary yesterday… we are very happy, but I would be happier if she got a job!

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

He has a bungalow mind.

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