Subject: Insults (Page 28)

Vivian: Nice outfit.

Elle: Oh, I like your outfit too, except when I dress up as a frigid bitch, I try not to look so constipated.

(1976 – ) American actress & producer

I liked your opera… I think I will set it to music.

(1770 – 1827) German composer & pianist

Whatever it was that this actress never had, she still hasn't got it.

(1905 – 1981) journalist, author & film critic

She speaks five languages and can't act in any of them.

(1904 – 2000) English actor, director & producer

Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

(1792 – 1868) Italian composer

The finest woman that ever walked the streets.

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

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

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

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

Scorsese was our director; he had phone books under his ass so he could see the actors.

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

Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

If he’d been making shell cases during the war it might have been better for music.

(1835 – 1921) French Late-Romantic composer, conductor & pianist

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise [lever] it up long enough to get a plate under it.

(1910 – 1997) American writer

A tall, thin, spectacled man with the face of a harassed rat.

writer

He’s so f**king crooked he sleeps on a spiral staircase!

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

She's all done up like a well-kept grave.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

You look into his eyes, and you get the feeling someone else is driving.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

This enormous dunghill.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

He moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

(1924 – 1984) American author

He's a Republican housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

Is there no beginning to your talents?

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

She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.

(1860 – 1937) Scottish author, dramatist (creator of Peter Pan)