The Art of Insult

• “He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle”” ―Alice Roosevelt Longworth
• “His conversation had occasional flashes of silence” ―Sidney Smith
• “No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” ―H.L. Mencken
• “So brilliant yet so corrupt, like rotten mackerel by moonlight, he shines and stinks.” ―John Randolph
• “His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigen that had been starved to death.” ―Abraham Lincoln
• “A sheep in sheep’s clothing.” ―Winston Churchill
• “A modest little man with much to be modest about.” ―Winston Churchill
• “Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.” ―Mark Twain
• “He could charm an audience and hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.” ―Mark Twain