These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. Continued from last week
“He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” Samuel Johnson
“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.” Paul Keating
“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” Forrest Tucker
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” Mark Twain
“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” Mae West
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” Oscar Wilde
“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts . . . for support rather than illumination.” Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.” Billy Wilder
“I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I’m afraid this wasn’t it.” Groucho Marx
“The exchange between Winston Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, “If you were my husband I’d give you poison.” He said, “If you were my wife, I’d drink it.”
“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.” Abraham Lincoln
“There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.” Jack E. Leonard
“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.” Thomas Brackett Reed
“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.” James Reston (about Richard Nixon)
Contributed by Barbara Bruno