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 LettermanClare 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 owner