Subject: Insults (Page 14)

He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.

(1864 –1945) Anglo-Scottish socialite, author & wit

Alexander Woollcott to Franklin Adams: What is so rare as a Woollcott first edition?
Adams reply: A Woollcott second edition.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist

Well, I really think he shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

(1930 – ) American politician

She's got such a narrow mind, when she walks fast her earrings bang together.

(1948 – 2003) comedy writer & speaker

I was so unpopular as a kid, Dale Carnegie once hit me in the mouth.

(1924 – 1987) American stand-up ‘deadpan’ comedian and actor

How would you like to feel the way she looks?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

He is a silk stocking filled with dung.

(1769 – 1821) French general & politician

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

(1908 – 1989) American actress of film, television & theater

Alone… in bad company

You make Al Capone look like a petty shoplifter.


Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

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

I can always tell when the mother-in-law’s coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.

(1931 – 1993) English comedian

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

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

His favorite exercise is climbing tall people.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

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

He appears to have been called 'The Little Giant' more because he was little than because he was a giant.

(1903 – 1989) American writer

He's so fat, he can be his own running mate.

(1925 – 2005) television host

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

She's a vacuum with nipples.

(1905 – 1986) Austro–Hungarian-American theater & film director

In her last days, she resembled a spoiled pear.

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