Subject: Insults (Page 10)

He would not blow his nose without moralizing on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

(1903 – 1974) English intellectual, literary critic & writer

Oh, if I could piss the way he speaks!

(1841 – 1929) French statesman, physician & journalist

A triumph of the embalmer's art.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

He was so ugly, the last time I saw him he was the top of a totem pole in Seattle.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist

She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.

(1860 – 1937) Scottish author, dramatist (creator of Peter Pan)

Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought… "What a piece of crap?"

American television producer, screenwriter, executive producer & author

He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

(1888 – 1964) comedian & actor

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

Better at sex than anyone; now all he needs is a partner.

Berlioz, musically speaking, is a lunatic; a classical composer only in Paris, the great city of quacks.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it; he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

(1933 – 2006) politician

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

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

[Adlai] Stevenson was a man who could never make up his mind… whether he had to go to the bathroom or not.

(1884 – 1972) 33rd U.S. president

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

(1836 – 1911) English dramatist, librettist, poet & illustrator

He’s done everybody’s act; he’s a parrot with skin on.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

What do you do if you're in a room with Muammar Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and John Sununu, and you have a gun with only two bullets? … shoot Sununu twice.

(1933 – ) U.S. senator (Massachusetts)

Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.

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

What makes him think a middle-aged actor, who’s played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.

(1902 – 1968) novelist

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

(1932 – ) French-American writer, biographer, journalist & historian

The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober.

(1865 – 1939) Irish poet & politician