Subject: Insults (Page 9)

He was like a kamikaze pilot who keeps apologizing for the attack.

(1918 – 2004) journalist & columnist

When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

(1914 – ) American comic & actor

Nigel Mansell is someone with about as much charisma as a damp spark-plug.

British sportswriter

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

He’s so old his social security number is two digits.

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

I think of Trump as Hitler without the warmth.

(1955 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands – and all you can do is scratch it.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

For God's sake, go and tell that young man to take that Rockingham tea service out of his tights.

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

I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.

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

Some people say Birmingham looks great in the summer. I reckon it looks better in the rear view mirror.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

You’re a lot of woman, you know that? Yeah, wanna make 14 dollars the hard way?

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

If there’s one thing for which I admire you, it’s your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

(1839 – 1902) Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

McEnroe was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.

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

Poor little man, they made him out of lemon Jell-O® and there he is; he’s honest and hardworking but he’s not great.

(1894 – 1988) American journalist, novelist & screenwriter

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

(1913 – 1995) Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist & professor

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

I am going to hell and I'm looking forward to it… I'll finally get to meet Madonna.

(1965 – ) American comedian

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman.

(1944 – 2007) newspaper columnist, political commentator, humorist & author

You've got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because if you quote him accurately it's called mudslinging.

(1928 – ) U.S. vice president & senator (Minnesota)

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you’re twenty minutes.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet