A collection of often impolite, but always witty taunts from the world's masters of the studied insult. An insult can be bad-mannered, offensive, and infuriating, but every one of us has surely had one of those moments when we just wish we had thought of a good one. Unlike most of us, however, there are those who always seem to have the perfect comeback. This book gathers together the very sharpest of these barbs from a wide variety of sources, with some of the wickedest putdowns from the literary, political, and entertainment worlds, along with many others.

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"The stupid person's idea of a clever person." - Elizabeth Bowen on Aldous Huxley "That insolent little ruffian that crapulous lout. When he quitted a sofa, he left behind him a smear." - Norman Cameron on Dylan Thomas "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx"