Subject: Insults (Page 6)

Esther, warn me before you come in so I have a chance to cover all of the mirrors!.

(1922 – 1991) American comedian

He looked like a half-melted rubber bulldog.

(1925 – ) American author and literary, theater & film critic

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

(1863 – 1945) British politician & statesman

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

The right honorable and learned gentleman has twice crossed the floor of this House, each time leaving behind a trail of slime.

(1863 – 1945) British politician & statesman

Don King is one of the great humanitarians of our time. He has risen above that great term, prejudice. He has screwed everybody he has ever been around. Hog, dog, or frog, it don't matter to Don. If you got a quarter, he wants the first 26 cents.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

He wouldn't commit himself to the time of day from a hatful of watches.

(1894 – 1969) American writer

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

(1965 – ) film & television actor

They don't hardly make 'em like him any more… but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.

(1937 – 2005) journalist & author

One could always baffle Conrad by saying 'humour.’

(1866 – 1946) English author

If life was a party, he wasn’t even in the kitchen.

(1948 – ) English novelist

He [Bernard Shaw] hasn’t an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

The finest woman that ever walked the streets.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Otto von Bismarck: The Germans have just bought a new country in Africa where Jews and pigs will be tolerated.

Disraeli: Fortunately, we are both here (in England).

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

Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

(1792 – 1868) Italian composer

You've got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because if you quote him accurately it's called mudslinging.

(1928 – ) U.S. vice president & senator (Minnesota)

She's about as feminine as a sidewalk drill.

(1925 – ) U.S. senator (Alabama)

Always willing to lend a helping hand to the one above him.

(1896 – 1940) American author of novels & short stories

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

(1873 – 1945) a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist

He'd make a lovely corpse.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

The integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

(1937 – 2005) journalist & author