{"product_id":"1001-insults-put-downs-and-comebacks-by-steven-price","title":"1001 Insults, Put-Downs, and Comebacks by Steven Price","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The stupid person's idea of a clever person.\"--Elizabeth Bowen on Aldous Huxley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"That insolent little ruffian, that crapulous lout. When he quitted a sofa, he left behind him a smear.\"--Norman Cameron on Dylan Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn 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. 1001 Insults, Put-Downs, and 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:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\"A large shaggy dog unchained scouring the beaches of the world and baying at the moon.\"--Robert Louis Stevenson on Walt Whitman\u003cbr\u003e-\"The triumph of sugar over diabetes.\"--George Nathan on J. M. Barrie\u003cbr\u003e-\"He was another one that was a complete fizzle . . . Pierce didn't know what was going on, and even if he had, he wouldn't have known what to do about it.\"--Harry Truman on Franklin Pierce\u003cbr\u003e-\"He is such an infernal liar.\"--Ulysses Grant on Andrew Johnson\u003cbr\u003e-\"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.\"--Mark Twain\u003cbr\u003e-\"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.\"--Groucho Marx\u003cbr\u003e-\"Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.\"--Oscar Levant\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43341586301002,"sku":"6333a","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6333a.jpg?v=1771991328","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/1001-insults-put-downs-and-comebacks-by-steven-price","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}