Subject: Insults (Page 39)

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

Justin Bieber looks like a little lesbian… he’s the daughter Cher wishes she’d had.

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

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

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

(1925 – 2005) television host

She must use Novocain lipstick.

(1918 – 2004) radio and television comedian & talk show host

The ‘g’ is silent… the only thing about her that is.

(1959 – ) English writer & columnist

It sounds like attention-seeking behavior to me.

(1958 – ) Welsh actor, writer & comedian

I'd rather be a lamppost in Denver than the mayor of Philadelphia.

American professional boxer

Harpo, she's a lovely person – she deserves a good husband; marry her before she finds one.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

Television opened up a whole new field of unemployment for him.

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

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

(1917 – ) British politician

Bambi with testosterone.

(1959 – ) film critic

He'd make a lovely corpse.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

She's good, being gone.

(1564 – 1616) English dramatist & poet

The 100% American is 99% idiot.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.

(1919 – 2010 ) England author

Neither am I.

(1937 – 1995) English satirist, writer & comedian

Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

American author

He's [Frank Sinatra] the kind of guy that when he dies, he's going up to heaven and give God a bad time for making him bald.

(1924 – 2004) American actor

I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.

(1939 – ) English actor, comedian, writer & producer

She preserved to the age of fifty-six that contempt for ideas which is normal among boys and girls of fifteen.

(1884 – 1967) American professor, poet & politician