Subject: Insults (Page 32)

A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

(1688 – 1744) English poet

Bambi with testosterone.

(1959 – ) film critic

Where does she find them?

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

And this is your grandson, huh? Oh, wonderful boy! Yeah, he’s a good boy. Now I know why tigers eat their young.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Is she fat? … Her favorite food is seconds.

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

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

(1890 – 1960) journalist, author & dramatist

He's completely unspoiled by failure.

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

Well, it only proves what they always say – give the public something they want to see, and they’ll come out for it.

(1913 – 1997) American comedian & radio & television host

George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill: Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend – if you have one.

Churchill’s reply: Impossible to be present for the first performance; will attend second – if there is one.

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

He was so crooked that when he died they had to screw him into the ground.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

No self-respecting fish would want to be wrapped in a [Rupert] Murdoch newspaper.

(1932 – 1997) newspaper columnist

I like Wagner's music better than any other music; it is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Her hair lounges on her shoulders like an anesthetized cocker spaniel.

American journalist & critic

Well, I really think he shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

(1930 – ) American politician

It's a pity you didn't have a little more brandy; it might have made you more agreeable!

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

The boy's about as sharp as a bowling ball.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

What he lacks in intelligence, he makes up for in stupidity.

Elizabeth, you gotta stop calling me… I’m going with someone.

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

Don King is one of the great humanitarians of our time. He has risen above that great term, prejudice. He has screwed everybody he has ever been around. Hog, dog, or frog, it don't matter to Don. If you got a quarter, he wants the first 26 cents.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor