Subject: Insults (Page 7)

He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist

Definition of irony: Sharon Osborne judging talent

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

(1839 – 1902) Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

If ever a single person was living proof that intelligence is a meaningless quality without modest common sense, it was Susan Sontag.

(1947 – ) English-born Irish journalist & writer

Tell me the story of that frock Judy, it's obviously an old favorite; you were wise to remove the curtain rings.

(1934 – ) Australian comedian, satirist, artist, & author

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

As useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

(1941– ) American radio personality

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

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

(1949 – ) American actor & environmentalist

He'd make a lovely corpse.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

Try interviewing her sometime… it's like talking to a window.

(1948 – ) American television journalist & sportscaster

Bryant Gumbel’s ego has applied for statehood…. and if it’s accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.

(1934 – ) American TV personality

The only reason he had a child is so that he can meet babysitters.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

Need to tie some kerosene rags around his ankles so the ants don’t eat his candy ass.

American auto racer

Listening to a speech by Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's; everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

(1897 – 1960) Welsh labor leader & politician

… you're so crooked that if you swallowed a nail you'd shit a corkscrew.

(1898 – 1979) British military commander

Virginia Woolf’s writing is no more than glamorous knitting; I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

(1887 – 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist & poet

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

(1941 – 2008) British journalist, musician &broadcaster

He's about as sexy as a pissing toad.

(1924 – 1984) American author

I like Wagner's music better than any other music; it is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

A nice, acrid, savage, pathetic old chap.

(1893 – 1979) English literary critic