Subject: Insults (Page 37)

You really have to get to know him to dislike him.

(1908 – 1989) U.S. Representative

The first known case of a rat joining a sinking ship.

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

Alfred Hitchcock: One look at you and I know there's famine in the land.

Shaw’s reply: One look at you, Mr. Hitchcock, and I know who caused it.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

I'm not saying the wife's ugly, but last Christmas she stood under the mistletoe waiting for someone to kiss and she was still there at lent.

(1931 – 1993) English comedian

That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

That woman’s as cold as a nudist on an iceberg.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

One of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

(1897-1962) American writer

Is that your wife? … Oh, well, keep your chin up.

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

If you said 'irony' to Clay, he'd look down at his shirt and think it needed pressing.

(1957 – ) American actor, comedian, writer & director

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

(1837 – 1920) American author

Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: If I were married to you, I’d put poison in your coffee.

Churchill, in reply: If you were my wife, I’d drink it.

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

I asked the Scottish Football Association if San Marino was a republic or a principality; they said it was a technicality.

Scottish football commentator

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap.

(1903 – 1989) American writer

He stood on the flat road to heaven and buttered slides to hell for all the rest.

(1841 – 1935) American jurist & Supreme Court justice

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

(1931 – ) American-born, British screenwriter, novelist & journalist

Nigel Mansell is someone with about as much charisma as a damp spark-plug.

British sportswriter

In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Like all self-made men he worships his creator.

When one door closes another one falls on top of you.

(1956 – ) British actor, writer, musician, comedian & broadcaster