Subject: Insults (Page 12)

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 has Van Gogh's ear for music.

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

Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: If I were married to you, I’d put poison in your coffee.

Churchill, in reply: If you were my wife, I’d drink it.

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

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

(1915 – 2002) Israeli diplomat & politician
Insults Intelligence

Even the deaf would be traumatized by prolonged exposure to the most hideous croak in Western culture; Richards' voice is simply horrible.

(1950 – ) journalist & columnist
Insults

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea and that was wrong.

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

You'd think such a little mind would be lonely in such a big head.

(1852 – 1917) English actor & theater manager
Insults Intelligence

You're like a pay toilet, aren't you? … you don't give a shit for nothing.

(1905 – 1976) industrialist, aviator, engineer, film producer & philanthropist
Insults

The 100% American is 99% idiot.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
America Insults People

You’ve heard of people living in a fool’s paradise? … well, Leonora has a duplex there.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
Fools Insults

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president
Communication Education Ideas Insults Intelligence Speech

Retraction: The revision of an insult to give it wider circulation.

Definitions Insults

There never was an impostor so hateful, a blockhead so stupid, a crank so variously and offensively daft… he makes me tired.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Characteristics Insults Intelligence

If you don’t want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president
Insults

He's always backing into the limelight.

(1883 – 1950) English composer
Insults

A little emasculated mass of inanity.

(1858 – 1919) 26th U.S. president
Insults

The plain truth is, that he was a most intolerable ruffian, a disgrace to human nature, and a blot of blood and grease upon the history of England.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist
England Insults People Places

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

(1876 – 1944) American author, humorist & columnist
Appearance Clothing Insults

He’s the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter
Frugal Insults Money

The worst and most homeliest thing to hit the screens since Liza Minelli.

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

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

(1941 – 2008) British journalist, musician &broadcaster
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