Subject: Insults (Page 3)

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

(1770 – 1827) German composer & pianist
Entertainment Insults Music

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

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

You’ve heard of people living in a fool’s paradise? … well, Leonora has a duplex there.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
Fools Insults

Doesn't know much, but leads the league in nostril hair.

(1818 – 1885) humorist
Appearance Insults

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I; never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

Peggy Noonan (1950 – ) American author & columnist
Insults

George Zimmerman wants to go to law school; I believe his exact words were, “I’d kill to be a lawyer.”

(1978 – ) American writer & stand-up comedian
Insults

He was oppressed by metaphor, dislocated by parentheses and debilitated by amplification.

(1747 – 1825) English schoolmaster, writer, minister & Doctor of Law
Communication Insults Speech

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.

(1919 – 1986) American actor
Insults

The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you’re signing somebody’s cast.

(1973 – ) American comedian
Health Insults

I've just spent an hour talking to Tallulah for a few minutes.

(1897 – 1961) American actor
Communication Insults

Few things can be less tempting or dangerous than a Greek woman of the age of thirty.

(1789–1844) British traveller & author
Insults Places

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author
Insults

She did not so much cook food as assassinate food

English writer
Cooking Food/Drink Insults

If you don’t want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president
Insults

Truman Capote's death was a good career move.

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

He was trying to save both his faces.

(1901 – 1970) American journalist & author
Insults

I think a lot of Bernstein… but not as much as he does.

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

Pamela Lee said her name is tattooed on her husband's penis; which explains why she changed her name from Anderson to Lee.

(1963 – ) television host & comedian
Insults

Compared to the Clintons, Reagan is living proof that a Republican with half a brain is better than a Democrat with two.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist
Insults Politicians

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

(1863 – 1945) British politician & statesman
Insults

Mariah the fashion pariah… the queen of catastrophic kitsch.

Richard Blackwell (1922 – 2008) fashion critic, journalist, & designer
Insults