The best put downs from the greatest gentlemen
Gentlemen may be polite and highly refined people, however that does not mean that they can’t be acerbic and occasionally insulting. Here are the greatest ever put downs from some of the most famous gentlemen in history.
‘I may be drunk miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly’ – Winston Churchill to Lady Astor after she reprimanded him for being drunk.
‘She got her good looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon’ – Groucho Marx shows us why he was one of the greatest wits of the 20th century.
‘I’m prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Phillip. He’s a world expert, he’s been practising for most of his adult life’ – Labour leader Neil Kinnock was perhaps unsurprisingly dismissive of members of the Royal family.
‘She can’t even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book’ – Liam Gallagher cruelly observed of Victoria Beckham.
‘A sheep in sheep’s clothing’ – Winston Churchill despised his opposite number on the Labour benches, Clement Atlee.
‘The only time my wife and I had a simultaneous orgasm was when the judge signed the divorce papers’ – Woody Allen, but about which wife…?
‘So boring, you fall asleep halfway through her name’ – The playwright Alan Bennett doesn’t think much of Arianna Stassinopoulos (now Huffington).
‘Are we going to need ear plugs?’ – Prince Philip clearly was not delighted by the prospect of hearing Madonna belt out the theme song for Die Another Day.
But perhaps the greatest ever put down actually came from a woman…
‘Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses’ – Elizabeth Taylor clearly didn’t think much of Richard Burton, Paul Newman and Marlon Brando!
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