Subject: Insults (Page 5)

He'd steal a hot stove and come back for the smoke.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill: Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend – if you have one.

Churchill’s reply: Impossible to be present for the first performance; will attend second – if there is one.

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

You know I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

The English think soap is civilization.

(1834 – 1896) German historian & political writer

She looks like something that would eat its young.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra – and sank.

(1900 – 1969) American drama critic & author

Berlioz composes by splashing his pen over the manuscript and leaving the issue to chance.

(1810 – 1849) Polish composer & virtuoso pianist

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

I am… an inflated swimsuit.

(1966 – ) English dance-pop singer, actress & former model

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

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

I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that.

(1858 – 1919) 26th U.S. president

Fine words! … I wonder where you stole them.

(1667 – 1745) Irish satirist & essayist

He is a silk stocking filled with dung.

(1769 – 1821) French general & politician

It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver… Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.

(1970 – ) American actress, comedian, writer & producer

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

She may very well pass for forty three… in the dusk with the light behind her.

(1836 – 1911) English dramatist, librettist, poet & illustrator

Oh good, now he’ll be bi-ignorant.

(1943 – ) U.S. agriculture commissioner, columnist, activist & author

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

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

Dan Quayle is more stupid than Ronald Reagan put together.

(1954 – ) cartoonist, screenwriter, producer & creator of The Simpsons

Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.

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