Insults -christiansquoting.org.uk

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

He sets himself incredibly low standards, which he consistently fails to maintain.

When you left your home, you deprived the village of it's idiot.

The man is all class - unfortunately third.

He is as bright as Manchester in December

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)

"The 't' is silent, as in 'Harlow.'" Dame Margot Asquith (1864 &endash; 1945), to Jean Harlow, on the pronunication of "Margot."

Tony Blair is as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike.
A farmer reported in the press 25 March 2001 giving his verdict on our esteemed PM.

He did not seem to care which way he travelled providing he was in the driver's seat. Lord William Maxwell Aitken Beaverbrook (1879 &endash; 1964), on David Lloyd George

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult. --Proverbs 12:16 NIV

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. --1 Peter 3:9 NIV

He was born stupid and greatly improved his birthright. Samuel Butler

The Cardinal is at his wit's end &emdash; it is true &emdash; that he had not far to go. - Lord George Gordon Byron

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

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and glorify himself. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, speech (July 27, 1878) -speaking of Gladstone

I do not wish to be the holder of an award that puts me on the same level as these vulgar nincompoops.
Canadian MP Hector Dupuis returns his OBE as the Beatles are awarded their MBEs on 26 October 1965.

Mrs. Dryden Lord, Mr. Dryden, how can you always be poring over these musty books. I wish I were a book, and then I should have more of your company.
Dryden Pray, my dear; if you become a book let it be an almanack,for then I shall change you every year
Dictionary of Biographical Quotations, Sphere Reference 1985.

Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar. - Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793 &endash; 1860)

Every time I see Tom DeLay, I can't help thinking: a hundred thousand sperm and YOU were the fastest? - Jim Hightower

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer

Actress Mary Anderson: "Mr. Hitchcock, what do you think is my best side?" "My dear, you're sitting on it." - Alfred Hitchcock (1899 &endash; 1980):

She was a patron saint of the peripheral. - Jane Howard (1935-1996) "On Margaret Mead," 1984.

If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. --Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

Chesterton was a fat clown who crucifies truth upside down.-- Dean Inge

In his quiter moments he sounds like his trousers are on fire.-- Clive James on Murray Walker

jCalumnies are answered best with silence. Ben Jonson

I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.-Henry Labouchere (1935 - ____)

When they circumcised him they threw away the wrong bit.-- David Lloyd George on his Liberal Party colleague Sir Herbert Samuel

He may look like an idiot, and he may sound like an idiot, but don't let him fool you. He really is an idiot. -- Groucho Marx

There's no hate lost between us. - Thomas Middleton (1580 &endash; 1627)

The Earl of Sandwich: Egad, sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox.
John Wilkes: That will depend, my Lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.
McPhee, 'The Bumper Book of Insults', 1993

Mockery is the weapon of those who have no other.- Hubert Pierlot

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect. --Arthur Schopenhauer, _Position_, 1851

The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. - Sheridan.

Insults are effective only where emotions are present. --Spock _Star Trek_, "Who Mourns for Adonais" [Stardate: 3468.1]

They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway. -- Hunter S. Thompson

He did not seem to care which way he travelled providing he was in the driver's seat.- Lord William Maxwell Aitken Beaverbrook, on David Lloyd George;

At a dinner that was attended by the Yorks, Wallis had stepped forward to greet them, holding out her hand as a gesture of friendship. Edward had evidently asked Wallis to perform the role of hostess, The Duchess was furious. She walked straight past Wallis and said in a loud voice, 'I came to dine with the King', Throughout the evening she continued to ignore Wallis, and she and the Duke were the first to leave. - Michae Thornton, Royal Feud, p112

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. -- Mark Twain

He's the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms. -- Mamie Van Doren