The Invective Nexus

[Ignatz]

On this thread, let's share our favorite insults. Classic venom from history, literature, or film...common put-downs you've gathered "in the wild" from your friends, acquaintances, coworkers, etc....original zingers you've coined yourself.
Anything goes.
Please don't direct the insults at anyone on the forum, of course. If you need a target, use my next-door neighbor Harold Hicker (not his real name).

For example, Harold is so dumb he couldn't pour piss out of his boot if the instructions were printed on the heel.

 

[amk714]

http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_222.html

Quayle: "I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency." Bentsen: "Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." (Omaha, Nebraska, October 5, 1988)

 

[Ignatz]

You think political invective is harsh now? Try this from the 1930's. David Lloyd George of the U.K. speaking of a member of his own party:
"When they circumcised Herbert Samuel, they threw away the wrong bit."

 

[amk714]

That's a good one, ignatz.

http://home.att.net/~resurgence/Quotes-politics.htm

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, October 26, 1939.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

the hollywood brother loved that one

 

[Cbarton]

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, October 26, 1939.

and to supply equal time...

"A man who is not a liberal at age 20 has no heart, but a man who is still a liberal at 40 has no brain!"

Winston Churchill

According to Churchill, I found my brain LONG before I found my heart...

 

[Ignatz]

Once at a social gathering, William Gladstone said to Benjamin Disraeli: 'I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease'.

Disraeli replied, 'That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.'