Inspired insults!

[Chubbo]

I consider Mark Twain, champion of the art.

Chubbo

 

[SupportTheSecond]

One of my old favorites and W.C. Fields has plenty was:

"I've got a woman to blame me for my drinking, I never had the chance to thank her"

 

[GB]

I have a friend that use to say, when peeved: "Your feet stink! And you don't love the baby Jesus!"

 

[WCCPHD]

Heard one co-worker tell another: "You are dumber than we tell people you are."

 

[Bekeart]

My Question ...

My Question:

When he was born, what did they do with the front half of the horse?

 

[DWalt]

Another insult attributed to Churchill (but it really didn't happen), concerning a verbal repartee with a woman who was not on good terms with him:

“If you were my husband, sir, I’d give you a dose of poison in your tea!”

Winston looked at her and said “If I were your husband, madam, I’d happily drink it!”

 

[shovelmike]

Said to Abraham Lincoln about a colleague: He's such a modest man.
Lincoln's reply: Well, he has a lot to be modest about.

 

[DWalt]

Said to Abraham Lincoln about a colleague: He's such a modest man.
Lincoln's reply: Well, he has a lot to be modest about.

Something very similar was also reported concerning a purported conversation between Harry Truman and Winston Churchill regarding the post-WWII British Prime Minister Clement Atlee:

Harry Truman: Clement Attlee came to see me the other day. He struck me as a very modest man.

Winston Churchill: He has much to be modest about.

Churchill found his way into many such aphorisms, but few if any of them have been proven as factual.

 

[Grayfox]

"My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." - Malcolm Reynolds

 

[riverrat38]

The following dialog has been repeated many times over the years, only the names have been changed to protect the guilty:
“Would it not be wonderful if we could have a child who had your brains and my beauty?” His reply was, “Yes, but supposing the child had your brains and my beauty!”

73,
Rick

 

[DWalt]

He could have been sober the next day…..but probably wasn’t.

While Churchill was widely portrayed as a heavy drinker (usually Gin Martinis) and often in an alcoholic stupor, the fact is that he was a very moderate drinker, favoring whiskey heavily diluted with water (just enough whiskey to slightly flavor the water). And he didn't even like Gin.

 

[Rudi]

Wish I could have met Winnie. Another of his encounters, with a woman, regarding her line of work and pricing, is classic.

 

[gjgalligan]

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

I would say that is a compliment rather then an insult.
I hate writers (including news media writers) that use words that the average person doesn't know.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

In my youth I drank with an Irish Friend. We both met later under the table. I went to work the next day & he didn't.

 

[TX-Dennis]

I once, out of frustration, told a coworker, "a monkey is smarter than you." Later got called into the boss's office and asked why I'd called her a monkey. I said that I never called her a monkey, but I did say a monkey was smarter than her. At that point I noticed that the boss had to fight to keep a straight face.

No, it wasn't a Churchillian insult, but it was the best I could do at the time.

 

[DWalt]

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

I would say that is a compliment rather then an insult.
I hate writers (including news media writers) that use words that the average person doesn't know.

I somewhat agree. Most of Hemingway's prose was written using short declarative sentences, a minimum of adjectives, and he avoided pretentious words. Personally, I was never much taken with Hemingway's works. Especially his later ones. I have never understood why he became so popular.

 

[Rudi]

Funny how people's tastes are different. I think I have read all of Ernest's books. Loved them. Esp. The Green Hills of Africa and A Farewell to Arms.

 

[Grayfox]

He can use more words to say less than anybody I've ever known.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

"Delusions of adequacy", I have used that description for years and now I know its source.

Thank you.

 

[moosedog]

Stop by again when you can't stay so long.