Subject: Insults (Page 25)

Come again when you can't stay so long.

(1860 – 1942) German-English painter

If you said 'irony' to Clay, he'd look down at his shirt and think it needed pressing.

(1957 – ) American actor, comedian, writer & director

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

If he had a mind, there was something on it.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

It's a pity you didn't have a little more brandy; it might have made you more agreeable!

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

She was a master at making nothing happen very slowly.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

She's good, being gone.

(1564 – 1616) English dramatist & poet

Barbara and I celebrated our 51st wedding anniversary yesterday… we are very happy, but I would be happier if she got a job!

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

[He] is the only bull who carries his china shop with him.

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

Maybe it's the hair, maybe it's the teeth, maybe it's the intellect…. no, it's the hair.

(1944 – ) American television critic

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

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

He's the only man able to walk under a bed without hitting his head.

(1897 – 1972) broadcast journalist & gossip columnist

Joan Rivers’s face hasn’t just had a lift, it’s taken the elevator all the way to the top floor without stopping.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist

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

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

Why don't you trade in your head for a bowling ball?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

If ever a single person was living proof that intelligence is a meaningless quality without modest common sense, it was Susan Sontag.

(1947 – ) English-born Irish journalist & writer

A modern day Robin Hood, who steals from the rich and steals from the poor.

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

[George] Bernard Shaw has discovered himself, and gave ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

(1870 – 1916) British writer

Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Is there no beginning to your talents?

(1952 – ) British barrister, comedy writer, and radio & television presenter

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian