Subject: Insults (Page 5)

I once described him [Arnold Schwarzenegger] as looking like a condom full of walnuts.

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

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

(1856 – 1939) Austrian neurologist, father of psychoanalysis

I was so unpopular as a kid, Dale Carnegie once hit me in the mouth.

(1924 – 1987) American stand-up ‘deadpan’ comedian and actor

As a simple countryman, he distrusted the use of money and, finding barter cumbersome, preferred to steal.

(1941 – 2008) British journalist, musician &broadcaster

The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is never read.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

He doesn't die his hair – he's just prematurely orange.

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president

The plain truth is, that he was a most intolerable ruffian, a disgrace to human nature, and a blot of blood and grease upon the history of England.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

Is she fat? … Her favorite food is seconds.

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

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

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

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

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

He was oppressed by metaphor, dislocated by parentheses and debilitated by amplification.

(1747 – 1825) English schoolmaster, writer, minister & Doctor of Law

Champagne for everybody!

(1902 – 1979) American actor

Pamela Anderson revealed all the taste and refinement of a hooker on holiday.

(1933 – ) English actress & author

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

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

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

(1896 – 1983) American actor

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.

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

Why do we have to have all these third-rate foreign conductors around – when we have so many second-rate ones of own?

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

When I can’t sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.

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

He’s the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms.

(1931 – ) American actress & singer

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

(1909 – 1995) American journalist