My favourite insults are attributed to Winston Churchill, Prime Minster of Great Britain (1940-1945 & 1951-1955)
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if I were your wife, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations/famous-quotations-and-stories
(3rd quotation down)
Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/biography/the-admiralty/churchill-andwar
(12th paragraph down)
We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought. (Talking about Ramsay MacDonald, Former Labour Party Prime Minster (1929-1935)and also amazingly switched sides to the Conservative Party becoming the Prime Minster for just over ten months!)
Look up Winston Churchill on Wikipedia. There are a shed-load of his quotes on there - many of which are the most subtle and sublime insults. Shame that today's polititions worry too much about "soundbites" and don't truly get intellectually down & dirty.
EDIT: Note to a previous poster - you got your insulted ladies mixed up! See links to the official Churchill site
