Subject: Insults (Page 26)

We’ve been through so much together, and most of it was your fault.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Oscar Wilde: Do you mind if I smoke?

Bernhardt: I don't care if you burn.

(1844-1923) French stage actress

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

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

He hasn’t an enemy in the world – but all his friends hate him.

(1892 – 1964) singer, dancer, comedian, actor & songwriter

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

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

I have more talent in my smallest fart than you have in your entire body.

(1920 – 2000) American actor

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses; will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president

A lewd vegetarian.

(1819 – 1875) English priest, university professor, historian & novelist

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

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

I am reading Henry James… and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

(1882 – 1941) English novelist, essayist, publisher & feminist

He doesn't die his hair, he bleaches his face.

(1925 – 2005) television host

Do you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

When he does smile, he looks as if he's just evicted a widow.

(1932 – 1997) newspaper columnist

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

(1922 – 1991) American comedian

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

(1839 – 1902) Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Dear Randolph, utterly unspoilt by failure.

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

Honey, beside me, you look like Tony Randall!

(1933 – 1967) American actress, entertainer & Hollywood sex symbol