Subject: Insults (Page 8)

Greater love hath no man than this, to lay down his friends for his life.

(1929 – ) British politician
Friends Insults

He looks like King Edward – the potato, not the monarch.

British satirist, comedian, writer, broadcaster and editor
Appearance Insults

Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Insults

Bambi with testosterone.

(1959 – ) film critic
Insults

Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator
Characteristics Communication Insults Speech

He was oppressed by metaphor, dislocated by parentheses and debilitated by amplification.

(1747 – 1825) English schoolmaster, writer, minister & Doctor of Law
Communication Insults Speech

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry – for the clothes.

(1818 – 1885) humorist
Clothing Insults Intelligence

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist
Entertainment Insults Music

German in the most extravagantly ugly language – it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.

(1937 – 1996) English cartoonist, satirist, comedian & actor
Communication Insults Language

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist
Appearance Insults

A man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska – sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.

(1963 – ) Irish novelist
Insults

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

(1910 – 1997) American writer
Appearance Body Fat Insults

A sheep in sheep’s clothing.

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

[boxing promoter] Bob Arum is one of the worst people in the western hemisphere. I don't know the eastern hemisphere very well, but I suspect he'd be one of the worst people there too, if he went.

boxing manager & trainer
Boxing Insults Sports

I can't believe that out of 100,000 sperm, you were the quickest.

American comedian
Insults

If there’s one thing for which I admire you, it’s your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

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

About the only thing you can say for his constipation of ideas is his diarrhea of words.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor
Communication Ideas Insults Intelligence Speech

He is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

(1897 – 1960) Welsh labor leader & politician
Insults

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

(1856 – 1939) Austrian neurologist, father of psychoanalysis
Insults People

You're a mouse studying to be a rat.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter
Animals Insults

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

(1915 – 2002) Israeli diplomat & politician
Insults Intelligence