Subject: Insults (Page 38)

Walter Mondale has all the charisma of:a speed bump.

(1952 – ) American political satirist

Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

I think of Alan Thicke as Perry Como without the excitement.

(1955 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

Harpo, she's a lovely person – she deserves a good husband; marry her before she finds one.

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

Betty White is so old that on her first game show ever, the grand prize was fire.

Lisa Lampanelli (1961 – ) American stand-up comedian

A victim of the use of water as a beverage.

(1793 – 1863) American politician, statesman & soldier

If a swamp alligator could talk, it would sound like Tennessee Williams.

(1938 – ) film critic & former television co-host

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

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

You can’t get Negro help like that, anymore… wow, to have a guy who can sing, dance – and dust!

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

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

(1913 – 1995) Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist & professor

She has a face that belongs to the sea and the wind, with large rocking-horse nostrils and teeth that you just know bite an apple every day.

(1904 – 1980) English photographer, interior, stage & costume designer

His mind is so open that the wind whistles through it.

(1918 – 2001) American sportswriter, commentator & actor

In her last days, she resembled a spoiled pear.

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

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

(1821 – 1867) French poet, essayist & art critic

He objected to ideas only when others had them.

(1906 – 1990) British historian

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

It appears that not even the heat of ridicule can weaken Rosie O'Donnell's steely resolve to make an idiot of herself.

(1969 – ) American columnist & author

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

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

(1688 – 1744) English poet

Calvin Coolidge didn’t say much, and when he did, he didn’t say much.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator