Subject: Insults (Page 41)

A little emasculated mass of inanity.

(1858 – 1919) 26th U.S. president

Michael Jackson’s album was only called “Bad” because there wasn’t enough room on the sleeve for “Pathetic.”

Rogers Nelson (1958 – ) singer, songwriter, musician & actor

Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

American author

How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

A victim of the use of water as a beverage.

(1793 – 1863) American politician, statesman & soldier

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

What makes him think a middle-aged actor, who’s played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music?

(1813 – 1883) German composer, conductor, theatre director & essayist

The right honorable and learned gentleman has twice crossed the floor of this House, each time leaving behind a trail of slime.

(1863 – 1945) British politician & statesman

I think Nancy does most of his talking; you'll notice that she never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

His writing is rumble and bumble, flap and doodle, balder and dash.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

He moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

(1924 – 1984) American author

I love that black dress; that neckline is plunging faster than Aretha Franklin’s head into a bucket of fried chicken.

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

Joe Frazier is so ugly he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

He only had one idea and that was wrong.

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

He would kill his own mother just so that he could use her skin to make a drum to beat his own praises.

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

Incidentally, [Carla] I’ve taken your little wisecracks for a few years now, you hideous gargoyle, and if you ever open that gateway to hell you call a mouth in my direction again, I’ll snap off your extremities like dead branches and feed them to you at gunpoint.

(1958 – ) American actress, musician & dancer

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

Scottish football commentator

To me Pound remains the exquisite showman without the show.

(1894 – 1964) American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright & novelist

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

A great zircon in the diadem of American literature.

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