M.A.W.A.: Part 2

More from the art of creative insult. 

 

1. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."

- Samuel Johnson 

 

2. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."

- Paul Keating

 

3. "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."

- Charles, Count Talleyrand

 

4. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."

- Forrest Tucker 

 

5. "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"

- Mark Twain 

 

6. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."

- Mae West

 

7. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

- Oscar Wilde

8.  "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... For support rather than illumination."

- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

9. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music."

- Billy Wilder

 

10. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."

- Groucho Marx.

 

11. "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

- Winston Churchill