Subject: Insults (Page 8)

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

(1973 – ) American comedian

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral was to make sure he was dead.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

His [George Bush] popularity rating – his approval rating – with blacks: two percent… two percent… that is somewhere between Mark Fuhrman and sickle cell anemia.

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

What you don't know would make a good book.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

Do you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

The only reason he had a child is so that he can meet babysitters.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

He has a bungalow mind.

(1856 – 1924) 28th U.S. president & politician

A nice, acrid, savage, pathetic old chap.

(1893 – 1979) English literary critic

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common: they both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

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

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I; never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

Peggy Noonan (1950 – ) American author & columnist

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

Judge: Are you trying to show contempt for this court, Mr Smith?

Smith: No, My Lord. I am attempting to conceal it.

(1872 – 1930) British statesman, politician & lawyer

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

(1959 – ) English writer & columnist

He is able to turn an unplotted, unworkable manuscript into an unplotted and unworkable manuscript with a lot of sex.


I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at storks.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

She was divinely, hysterically, insanely malevolent.

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

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.

(1667 – 1745) Irish satirist & essayist

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

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

They're just jealous because they don't have three wise men and a virgin in the whole organization.

(1941 – ) Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island

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