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"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: breakfast, brilliant, insults

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"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
— William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

tags: insults, shakespeare

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"'Hey, look - your *girlfriend* is saying something.'
Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl? "
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony)

tags: girlfriend, humor, insults, puberty

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"She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: insults, oscar, wilde

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"Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. "
— Jasper Fforde (Lost in a Good Book)

tags: humor, insults

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"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."
— William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing)

tags: insults, music, shakespeare

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"You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job."
— William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing)

tags: insults, shakespeare

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"Mousedung!"
— Erin Hunter (Dawn)

tags: insults

8 people liked it

"They lie deadly that tell you have good faces."
— William Shakespeare (Coriolanus)

tags: insults, shakespeare

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"Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: funny, insults, monster, myth, witty

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"Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade."
— Steve Toltz (A Fraction of the Whole)

tags: humor, insults, ugly

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"Her dress was a shade of green only tree lizards should be sporting, and she wore more accessories than a home-shopping hostess."
— Karen Neches (Earthly Pleasures: A Novel)

tags: catty, comments, insults

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"The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg."
— Edmund Wilson

tags: authors, insults, quotes

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"Done to death by slanderous tongue"
— William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing)

tags: death, eulogy, insults, sickness, slander

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