30 Quotes Tagged: insults

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

"Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."
(on Lillian Hellman)

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is not written on my face.

Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop.

There's no greater proof of an impoverished mind than its inability to be witty except at other people's expense.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

"A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."
(on Ezra Pound)

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]

You're awfully small to be so hugely irritating.

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.

No more Keats, I entreat: flay him alive; if some of you don’t I must skin him myself: there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin.