Subject: Insults (Page 5)

Calvin Coolidge didn’t say much, and when he did, he didn’t say much.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

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

What he lacks in intelligence, he makes up for in stupidity.

It proves what Harry always said: give the public what they want and they'll come out for it.

(1913 – 1997) American comedian & radio & television host

She was never really charming until she died.

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

One could not dignify him with the name of stuffed shirt; he was simply a hole in the air.

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

Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

She must use Novocain lipstick.

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

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

The little man on top of the wedding cake.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

Nothing trivial, I hope.

(1839 – 1919) Irish writer

As a simple countryman, he distrusted the use of money and, finding barter cumbersome, preferred to steal.

(1941 – 2008) British journalist, musician &broadcaster

What you don't know would make a good book.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

I've got three words for him: Am. A. Teur.

(1965 – ) film & television actor

You’re like the Ernest Hemingway of bullshit.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

Why, this fellow don't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

(1884 – 1972) 33rd U.S. president

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

(1890 – 1960) journalist, author & dramatist

Well, it only proves what they always say – give the public something they want to see, and they’ll come out for it.

(1913 – 1997) American comedian & radio & television host

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

(1873 – 1945) a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist

Joan Rivers’s face hasn’t just had a lift, it’s taken the elevator all the way to the top floor without stopping.

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