Subject: Insults (Page 35)

Sir, if my wife looked like that, I wouldn't need any help thinking of insults!

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

He called me a ‘rapist’ and a ‘recluse’ … I’m not a recluse.

(1966 – ) American boxing champion

Virginia Woolf’s writing is no more than glamorous knitting; I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

(1887 – 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist & poet

He' a Boy Scout with a hormone imbalance.

(1940 – ) writer & commentator

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

(1908 – 1989) American actress of film, television & theater

He is at his wit's end – it is true that he had not far to go.

(1788 – 1824) English poet

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

One could not even dignify him with the name of a stuffed shirt; he was simply a hole on the air.

Eric Arthur Blair (1903 – 50) English author & journalist

At first I thought he was walking a dog… then I realized it was his date.

(1918 – 1984) American actress & singer

If you live in Birmingham [England], then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.


There is no hell… there is only France.

(1940 – 1993) composer, guitarist, record producer & film director

Even the deaf would be traumatized by prolonged exposure to the most hideous croak in Western culture; Richards' voice is simply horrible.

(1950 – ) journalist & columnist

He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

(1888 – 1964) comedian & actor

Anyone might become homosexual after seeing Glenda Jackson naked.

(1939 – 2001) British author & journalist

God, whom you doubtless remember as that quaint old subordinate of General Douglas MacArthur…

(1904 – 1979) Jewish-American humorist, author & screenwriter

He hasn’t an enemy in the world – but all his friends hate him.

(1892 – 1964) singer, dancer, comedian, actor & songwriter

The 't' is silent, as in Harlow.

(1864 –1945) Anglo-Scottish socialite, author & wit

Don Rickles is the funniest man in show business… but don't go by me; I'm drunk.

(1917 – 1995) singer, actor & comedian

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

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

I asked the Scottish Football Association if San Marino was a republic or a principality; they said it was a technicality.

Scottish football commentator

It is not necessary to have relatives in Kansas City to be unhappy.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host