Subject: Insults (Page 26)

Pearl is a disease of oysters…Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer

If I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

(1803 – 1857) English writer

You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor's age by the rings on her fingers.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

It was said Mr. Gladstone could convince most people of most things, and himself of anything.

(1860 – 1954) English author, Anglican priest, professor & dean

I like Wagner's music better than any other music; it is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Oscar Wilde's talent seems to me to be essentially rootless, something growing in glass on a little water.

(1852 – 1933) Irish writer, poet, art critic & dramatist

As useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

(1941– ) American radio personality

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

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

He is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

(1897 – 1960) Welsh labor leader & politician

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

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

A face unclouded by thought.

(1905 –1984) American playwright

She was a master at making nothing happen very slowly.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

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

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

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

(1930 – ) American politician

A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.

(1895 – 1960) American politician

"Kim Kardashian is saddled with a huge arse… but enough about Kanye West."

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist

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

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

(1866 – 1944) American writer, newspaper columnist, playwright & humorist

Ambassador Trentino: I didn’t come here to be insulted!

Rufus T. Firefly: That’s what you think!

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host