The Best Life Quotes-20 Famous Put Downs

The best quotes in life often occur when you have to defend yourself.There are always people in life who have a witty remark or put down. sometimes you wish you had said it, but you cannot always remember them!

Here are a few famous put downs. Many cannot actually be attributed to one person in particular, but are just generally a throwaway gags, although I have included one of my favourite quotes from the great Winston Churchill.

The next time you wash your neck ,wring it. anon

Don't go away I want to forget you exactly as you are! anon

You have the brain of a four-year-old child, and I bet they were glad to get rid of it. Groucho Marx

I wish I had known you when you were alive. Leonard Lewis Levison

You're about as useful as a chocolate teapot. anon

It'd be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.?   Katharine Hepburn

If your gonna be two faced at least make one of em pretty.      Kayla Morris

You've a body to die for, and a face to protect it.   anon

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.       Mae West

Is that a new hairdo or did you just walk through a wind tunnel. anon

May your sex life be as good as your credit.    J. Corigan

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.
Andrew Lang

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. Dorothy Thompson

You're the type of person who lights up the room by leaving it. anon

Winston, you are drunk. Bessie Braddock MP......... Indeed ,Madam,and you are ugly but tomorrow I will be sober... Winston Churchill

Please turn off your mouth it is still running. anon

He can’t see a belt without hitting below it. Margot Asquith

Never insult an alligator until you’ve crossed the river. Cordell Hull

The only thing this conversation needs is a little lockjaw. anon

He has one of those characteristic British faces that once seen is never remembered. Oscar Wilde