Subject: Insults (Page 19)

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

(1965 – ) film & television actor

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

He is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

(1897 – 1960) Welsh labor leader & politician

The tautness of his face sours ripe grapes.

(1564 – 1616) English dramatist & poet

Television opened up a whole new field of unemployment for him.

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

Bob Geldof is a loss to the road-sweeping profession, as well as actually looking like something swept up.

American writer

Italians are fantastic people, really; they can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

(1926 – 2017) American stand-up comedian & actor

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

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

You know I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

One could drive a schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

(1866 – 1940) academic, businessman & politician

A garden gnome expelled from Eden.

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer

He's a Republican housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

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

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

(1933 – 2006) politician

Denis Healey Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

(1917 – ) British politician

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

(1863 – 1945) British politician & statesman

A buxom milkmaid reminiscent of a cow wearing a girdle, and both have the same amount of acting talent.

Richard Blackwell (1922 – 2008) fashion critic, journalist, & designer

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

(1915 – 1998) American singer & actor

Presley sounded like Jayne Mansfield looked – blowsy and loud and low.

(1959 – ) English writer & columnist

She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian

What do you mean, heart attack? … You’ve got to have a heart before you can have an attack.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

No… but I have trodden in some.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor