Subject: Insults (Page 8)

A fat little flabby person, with the face of a baker, the clothes of a cobbler, the size of a barrel maker, the manners of a stocking salesman, and the dress of an innkeeper.

(1813-1864) writer

Berlioz, musically speaking, is a lunatic; a classical composer only in Paris, the great city of quacks.

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch; maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.

(1908 – 1989) American actress of film, television & theater

Is it true you used to dance in a flea circus?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Sometimes Howard makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

(1884 – 1980) author & wit

Oh you arch-ass – you double-barrelled ass!

(1770 – 1827) German composer & pianist

It's great to be with Bill Buckley because you don't have to think; he takes a position and you automatically take the opposite and you know you are right.

(1908 – 2006) Canadian-American economist

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

English painter & sculptor Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?

Whistler’s reply: My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?

(1834 – 1903) American-born, British-based artist

Jimmy Carter couldn't even hold his own attention.

(1952 – ) American political satirist

She’s so hairy – when she lifted up her arm I thought it was Tina Turner in her armpit.

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

Oh my God, look at you; anyone else hurt in the accident?

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

If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune, and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity.

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

Need to tie some kerosene rags around his ankles so the ants don’t eat his candy ass.

American auto racer

I'd like to give you a going-away present… but you have to do your part.

Presley sounded like Jayne Mansfield looked – blowsy and loud and low.

(1959 – ) English writer & columnist

The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you’re signing somebody’s cast.

(1973 – ) American comedian

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

(1932 – ) French-American writer, biographer, journalist & historian