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Verbal Defense

  • There goes the famous good time that was had by all. -- Bette Davis
  • 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
  • Thou lumpish earth-vexing fustilarian. -- William Shakespeare
  • Thou mammering half-faced measle. -- William Shakespeare
  • Timid? As timid as a buzz saw. -- George Ells (about Hedda Hopper)
  • To err is Truman. -- A popular joke in 1946
  • To those she did not like . . . she was a stiletto made of sugar. -- John Mason Brown (about Dorothy Parker)
  • Useless as a pulled tooth. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Wagner's music is better than it sounds. -- Mark Twain
  • We've been through so much together, and most of it was your fault. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
  • Well, I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind. -- John Ehrlichman
  • What's on your mind? If you'll forgive the overstatement. -- Fred Allen
  • What has a tiny brain, a big mouth, and an opinion nobody cares about? You! -- from Murphy Brown
  • You are so boring that you can't even entertain a doubt.
  • He hadn't a single redeeming vice. -- Oscar Wilde
  • What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank. -- Liberace
  • When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes. -- Josh Billings
  • When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price? -- David Letterman
  • While he was not dumber than an ox he was not any smarter either. -- James Thurber
  • While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does not sleep with you. -- Martial, 1st Century AD (to a female friend)
  • If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.
  • Why are we honoring this man? Have we run out of human beings? -- Milton Berle
  • Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum. -- P. G. Wodehouse
  • Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out? -- Groucho Marx
  • Why, this fellow don't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday. -- Harry S Truman (about Dwight D. Eisenhower)
  • Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty. -- Lillian Hellman
  • You're a good example of why some animals eat their young. -- Jim Samuels
  • You're a mouse studying to be a rat. -- Wilson Mizner
  • You're a parasite for sore eyes. -- Gregory Ratoff
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