Subject: Insults (Page 29)

And I think I'll call it Superstar? Jesus Christ!

British writer & comedian

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

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

Nothing trivial, I hope.

(1839 – 1919) Irish writer

His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open.

(1905 – 1976) industrialist, aviator, engineer, film producer & philanthropist

It's like cuddling with a Butterball turkey.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

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

Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature.

(1904 – 2000) English actor, director & producer

She looks like someone who would eat her young.

(1949 – ) English actor, novelist, director, screenwriter & politician

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

(1913 – 1995) Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist & professor

The worst and most homeliest thing to hit the screens since Liza Minelli.

(1925 – ) American author and literary, theater & film critic

Our loss is their loss.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

He would sooner keep hot coals in his mouth than a witticism.

(1810 – 1892) Scottish minister

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

(1895 – 1972) writer and literary & social critic

You had to stand in line to hate him.

(1885 – 1966) American actress & gossip columnist

A garden gnome expelled from Eden.

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer

I don’t want to be patronizing… that means “talking down.”


A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

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

He’s so old his social security number is two digits.

He is racist, he's homophobic, he's xenophobic and he's a sexist; he's the perfect Republican candidate.

(1940 – ) talk radio host, political commentator and author

Of course, America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet