'He's 100% political herpes. Back in six months whatever you do'
Camilla Long on Nigel Farage
'It's not enough to succeed. Friends must fail'
Gore Vidal
Nothing cuts deeper, or provides greater pleasure, than the perfect put-down.
When it's directed at someone else.
Matthew Parris's sublime collection of the rudest, funniest shin-kicks and barbs in human history, spanning ancient Roman graffiti to social media spats, gleefully cherry-picks the finest work of such masters of scorn as Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth I and A.A. Gill. Together, they offer conclusive proof that verbal abuse can, at its finest, be an exquisite art form.
'He has not a single redeeming defect'
Benjamin Disraeli on William Ewart Gladstone
'The little shit Parris, with his perma-smirk'
Alastair Campbell, on the editor of this book
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Publisher
Profile BookseBook ISBN
9781782832973
Year
2016Table of contents
- Copyright Page
- List of Contents
- Introduction
- Humanity
- God and Religion
- Morality
- Nations
- Places
- Race
- Class and Courtesy
- Kings, Queens and Commoners
- People, Politicians and Government
- Left and Right
- British Politics
- Peers
- Australian Politics
- American Politics
- Politics in Europe and Beyond
- War
- Empire
- Journalism
- Writers, Publishers and Critics
- Art
- Music
- Theatre, Film and Television
- Doctors and Psychologists
- Law and Lawyers
- Business and Economics
- Sport
- Celebrity
- Food and Drink
- Women and Men
- Marriage and Family
- Age
- Ancients, Primitives and Folk Curses
- EU Referendum Scorn
- Acknowledgements
- Index