Subject: Insults (Page 20)

The first time I saw you on stage I realized what a wonderful voice you've got; I think you're so brave not to have had it trained.

(1865-1940) English actress
Entertainment Insults Reviews/Criticism

Useless as a pulled tooth.

(1876 – 1958) writer
Insults

His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open.

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

Inviting her to review one of your pictures is like inviting the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

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

The tautness of his face sours ripe grapes.

(1564 – 1616) English dramatist & poet
Appearance Insults

He has a bungalow mind.

(1856 – 1924) 28th U.S. president & politician
Insults

I doubt that art needed [John] Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter
Art Entertainment Insults

You can’t get Negro help like that, anymore… wow, to have a guy who can sing, dance – and dust!

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

Oh you arch-ass – you double-barrelled ass!

(1770 – 1827) German composer & pianist
Insults

[boxing promoter] Bob Arum is one of the worst people in the western hemisphere. I don't know the eastern hemisphere very well, but I suspect he'd be one of the worst people there too, if he went.

boxing manager & trainer
Boxing Insults Sports

You look like Benjamin Button when he was six.

(1965 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor, director & author
Insults

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
Accidents Insults Problems

He must have been an incredibly good shot.

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

Art is long and life is short; here is evidently the explanation of a Brahms symphony.

Insults Music

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

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian
Entertainment Insults

I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.

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

She should get a divorce and settle down.

(1918 – 2004) radio and television comedian & talk show host
Divorce Insults Marriage

He’s very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

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

A fat little flabby person, with the face of a baker, the clothes of a cobbler, the size of a barrel maker, the manners of a stocking salesman, and the dress of an innkeeper.

(1813-1864) writer
Insults

He is your typical smiling, brilliant, back-stabbing, bullshitting southern nut-cutter.

(1922 – 1999) labor union leader, president of the AFL-CIO
Insults

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter
Hollywood Insults Places