"You sir have the boorish manners of a Yalie"
A good ol’ fashioned insult. Perhaps a lost art in these days of passive-agressive emails and blog attacks (see my collected work for evidence).
It seems the days of the witty diss are behind us. So go here for a compendium of some of the better shots taken over the years.
Enjoy.
What other problems do you have besides being unemployed, a moron and a dork?
- - - John McEnroe
(to a spectator)
Any political party that can’t cough up anything better than a treacherous brain-damaged old vulture like Hubert Humphrey deserves every beating it gets. They don’t hardly make ‘em like Hubert any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.
- - - Hunter S. Thompson
(about Hubert Humphrey, 1973)
I'm just sick and tired of presidents who jog. Remember, if Bill Clinton wins, we're going to have another four years of his white thighs flapping in the wind.
- - - Arianna Huffington, 1995
How can they tell?
- - - Dorothy Parker
(hearing of Calvin Coolidge's death)
Oh my God, look at you. Anyone else hurt in the accident?
- - - Don Rickles
(to Ernest Borgnine
You will either die on the gallows or of a loathsome disease.
- - - John Montague
(to John Wilkes)
. . . That depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.
- - - John Wilkes (in reply)
He couldn't ad-lib a fart after a baked-bean dinner.
- - - Johnny Carson
(about Chevy Chase)
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