Subject: Insults (Page 36)

Doesn't know much, but leads the league in nostril hair.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

I never liked him and I always will.

Don't get insulted, but is your job devoted to spreading ignorance?

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

(1917 – ) British politician

The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.

(1973 – ) American comedian

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

(1925 – 2005) television host

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.

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

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands – and all you can do is scratch it.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

He looks as though he’s been weaned on a pickle.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is never read.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist

She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian

He's so small, he's a waste of skin.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

About the only thing you can say for his constipation of ideas is his diarrhea of words.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

He looks and talks like he just fell off Edgar Bergen's lap.

(1942 – ) Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director & author

A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

An enchanting toad of a man.

(1900 – 1993) American actress

Why are we honoring this man? … have we run out of human beings?

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

At first I thought he was walking a dog… then I realized it was his date.

(1918 – 1984) American actress & singer

He has a profound contempt for human nature; of course, he is much given to introspection.

(1754 – 1838) French prime minister & diplomat