Subject: Insults (Page 6)

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

(1828 – 1897) Scottish writer

I can't wait to get Nick's [DiPaolo's] new comedy album, its called “Stop me if you heard this in junior high school.”

(1972 – ) stand-up comedian & actor

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

(1900 – 1969) American drama critic & author

Woody Allen didn’t even buy sheets without talking to his psychiatrist; I know several sessions went into his switch from polyester-satin to cotton.

(1945 – ) American model, activist & actress

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

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

The Wizard of Ooze.

(1917 – 1963) 35th U.S. president

They want to play the blues so badly… and that's how they play it – badly!

American bluesman

Why don’t you come over tonight? … our dog’s in heat.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

To know him was to like him; not to know him was to love him.

(1884 – 1947) Jewish American lyricist

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

(1917 – 1995) singer, actor & comedian

And I want to thank you for all the enjoyment you've taken out of it.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

Maybe it's the hair, maybe it's the teeth, maybe it's the intellect…. no, it's the hair.

(1944 – ) American television critic

She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

(1797 – 1856) German critic & poet

I've got three words for him: Am. A. Teur.

(1965 – ) film & television actor

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

(1949 – ) American actor & environmentalist

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

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

He's completely unspoiled by failure.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

You are so boring that you can't even entertain a doubt.

Avoid all needle drugs – the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

(1936 – 1989) American social & political activist