He has patronised no science, he has raised no man of genius from obscurity; he counts no prime work of God among his friends. He has no attachment to female society, no fondness of children, no perception of beauty in natural scenery; but he is fond of convivial indulgences, of that stimulation which, keeping up the glow of self-importance and the sense of internal power, gives feelings without the mediation of ideas.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
On William Pitt the Younger
Category: Insults - General
Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance.
Horace Walpole
On Lord North
Category: Appearance, Insults - General
That depends, my Lord, whether I embrace your mistress or your principles.
John Wilkes
response to Lord Sandwich who had told him that he would die of the pox or on the gallows.
Category: Insults - General
He ate too much and took no excercise.
Lord Palmerston
On his brother in law, Lord Melbourne
Category: Insults - General
He's arrogant, orthopardically arrogant in every corpuscle.
Neil Kinnock 25/09/1983
On David Owen
Category: Insults - General
