Subject: Insults (Page 11)

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized to how many people he is not a sex symbol but a mother image.

(1947 – ) English musician, actor, record producer & arranger

It's bad when they don't perform your operas – but when they do, it's far worse.

(1835 – 1921) French Late-Romantic composer, conductor & pianist

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

Literary diarrhea.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends; there's nothing I wouldn't say to her face – both of them.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress

They want to play the blues so badly… and that's how they play it – badly!

American bluesman

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

(1965 – ) film & television actor

Well at least he has finally found his true love… what a pity he can’t marry himself.

(1915 – 1998) American singer & actor

If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune, and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity.

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

He is a servant of humanity… who had done really brilliant work in isolating fees.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

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

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

Dancing with her was like moving a piano.

(1885 – 1933) columnist & writer

You don’t need big boobs to be feminine… look at Liberace.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

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

(1873 – 1945) a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist

Judge Judy went to the hospital because she was having intestinal troubles; turns out, she hates her own guts.

(1956 – ) American comedian

She preserved to the age of fifty-six that contempt for ideas which is normal among boys and girls of fifteen.

(1884 – 1967) American professor, poet & politician

He doesn't die his hair, he bleaches his face.

(1925 – 2005) television host

I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that.

(1858 – 1919) 26th U.S. president

There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.

(1910 – 1973) American comedian

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

(1688 – 1744) English poet

He's so fat his bathtub has stretch marks.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive