Subject: Insults (Page 32)

An idiot child screaming in a hospital.

(1866 – 1946) English author

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

(1902 – 1994) British-born American trial lawyer & author

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

(1912 – 2007) U.S. first lady, wife of Lyndon Johnson

That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

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

You're like a pay toilet, aren't you? … you don't give a shit for nothing.

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

The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.

(1948 – 1990) comedian

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.

(1901 – 1983) American film & television actor

Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

(1870 – 1916) British writer

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

(1904 – 2000) English actor, director & producer

He did not seem to care which way he travelled, as long as he was in the driver’s seat.

Lord Beaverbrook (1879 – 1964) Canadian-British tycoon, politician & writer

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Calling Kathy Lee 'entertainment' is like falling off the roof and calling it transportation.

American actor & stand-up comedian

He has the lucidity which is the byproduct of a fundamentally sterile mind.

(1897 – 1960) Welsh labor leader & politician

He's an Anesthesiologist – Prince Valium.

(1927 – ) Canadian-born American comedian & actor

The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels; I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.

(1928 – 2003) English entertainer

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

(1857 – 1938) American lawyer

Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.

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