1001 Insults, Put-Downs, & Comebacks

An insult can be offensive and infuriating, but we've all had those moments where we just wish we had come up with a good one. Even better, having the perfect comeback to one of these rude remarks brings us all the personal satisfaction in the world. 1001 Insults, Put-downs, & Comebacks gathers together the very sharpest of these barbs from a wide variety of sources with some of the wickedest put-downs from the literary, political, and entertainment worlds, along with many others, including: "He has become the oldest living cute boy in the world." Anna Quindlen on Paul McCartney "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."Groucho Marx "When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?"David Letterman Clare Booth Luce stood aside and gestured Dorothy Parker to precede her through a door, saying "Age before beauty." Parker swept on, saying only "Pearls before swine." "George Steinbrenner is the center of evil in the universe." Ben Affleck on the New York Yankees ownerPrice, Steven D. is the author of '1001 Insults, Put-Downs, & Comebacks ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781599210735 and ISBN 1599210738.