Subject: Insults (Page 24)

He got a reputation as a great actor by just thinking hard about the next line.

(1894 – 1982) American film director, film producer & screenwriter

The one good thing about global warming is that as the waters rise, Hazel Blears will drown first.

Truman Capote had a voice so high it could only be detected by a bat.

(1911 – 1983) playwright

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

She's about as feminine as a sidewalk drill.

(1925 – ) U.S. senator (Alabama)

How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

He'd steal a hot stove and come back for the smoke.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

Such a little man could not have made so big a depression.

(1884 – 1968) American pacifist & Socialist Party presidential candidate

Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

(1792 – 1868) Italian composer

I'm not saying the wife's ugly, but last Christmas she stood under the mistletoe waiting for someone to kiss and she was still there at lent.

(1931 – 1993) English comedian

The baby is fine; the only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

He looks and talks like he just fell off Edgar Bergen's lap.

(1942 – ) Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director & author

He doesn't die his hair – he's just prematurely orange.

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

Esther, warn me before you come in so I have a chance to cover all of the mirrors!.

(1922 – 1991) American comedian

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

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

Betty White is so old that on her first game show ever, the grand prize was fire.

Lisa Lampanelli (1961 – ) American stand-up comedian

The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and vodka… anything and everything and vodka.

(1933 – ) Scottish born reporter, editor, & producer/correspondent

He is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar…. he's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

(1884 – 1972) 33rd U.S. president

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