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When insults had some style and wit.  (By GenghisTheHun (167) on 01/01/2007)

Please rate the following classical insults and suggest your own. 5 = great
 
 
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"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second...if there is one." Winston Churcill in response to G. B. Shaw's invitation insult (2)  5.00 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." -- Mae West (2)  5.00 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." -- Groucho Marx (2)  5.00 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." -- Winston Churchill (about Clement Attlee) (1)  5.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"A sheep in sheep's clothing." Winston Churchill (about Clement Attlee) (1)  5.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." -- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway) (1)  5.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new Play, bring a friend... if you have one." -- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill (1)  5.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." -- Mark Twain (1)  5.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily. -- Charles, Count Talleyrand (1)  5.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"One could drive a schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact."-- David Houston about William Jennings Bryan (1)  5.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
Lady Astor to Churchill "Winston, if you were my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison." Churchill: "Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it." (1)  5.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." -- Winston Churchill (2)  4.50 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." -- Forrest Tucker (2)  4.50 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." -- Oscar Wilde (2)  4.50 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." -- Robert Redford (1)  4.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...for support rather than illumination." -- Andrew Lang (1844-1912) (1)  4.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" -- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner) (1)  4.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." -- Clarence Darrow (4)  3.50 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." -- John Bright (2)  3.50 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon) (1)  3.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
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