"""I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me." --John Cleese" """A senescent bimbo with a lust for home furnishings." --Barbara Ehrenreich on Nancy Reagan""" ""He plays four-and-a-half-hour sets. That's torture. Does he hate his audiences?" --John Lydon on Bruce Springsteen""" ""I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away." --Nancy Mitford" Are you stuck for a cutting put-down, at a loss for a witty riposte, or just plain tongue-tied? This hilarious compendium of jibes, taunts, and slurs will equip you with a wealth of insults and witty comebacks for every occasion. With an assortment of quotations from great writers, philosophers, actors, and politicians on all subjects from relationships to religion, this book ensures against a lack of derogatory remark or defamatory insult for any situation.