Subject: Insults (Page 30)

Sharp as a sack full of wet mice.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

Before we make love, my husband takes a painkiller.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

To know him was to like him; not to know him was to love him.

(1884 – 1947) Jewish American lyricist

He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.

(1944 – 2007) newspaper columnist, political commentator, humorist & author

If there’s one thing for which I admire you, it’s your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

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

Dan Quayle is more stupid than Ronald Reagan put together.

(1954 – ) cartoonist, screenwriter, producer & creator of The Simpsons

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

(1688 – 1744) English poet

You’re like the Ernest Hemingway of bullshit.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

You've got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because if you quote him accurately it's called mudslinging.

(1928 – ) U.S. vice president & senator (Minnesota)

Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot but look at him now! – alcoholic and a racist!

(1972 – ) Scottish comedian

The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is never read.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

[boxing promoter] Bob Arum is one of the worst people in the western hemisphere. I don't know the eastern hemisphere very well, but I suspect he'd be one of the worst people there too, if he went.

boxing manager & trainer

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

Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

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

Woody Allen didn’t even buy sheets without talking to his psychiatrist; I know several sessions went into his switch from polyester-satin to cotton.

(1945 – ) American model, activist & actress

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

(1887 – 1943) theater critic & commentator

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you’re twenty minutes.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

A glorified bandmaster.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

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

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

Joan Rivers’s face hasn’t just had a lift, it’s taken the elevator all the way to the top floor without stopping.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist