Great Insults, Suitable for Adaptation for General Use

Jonathan Swift on Richard Steele:
"Steele might become a reasonably good writer if he would pay a little attention to grammar, learn something about the propriety and disposition of words, and incidentally, get some information on the subject he intends to handle."

Mark Twain on Cecil Rhodes:
"I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time comes, I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake."

Max Reger on Randolph Louis:
"I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me."

Cyril Connolly on George Orwell:
"He would not blow his nose without moralizing on conditions in the handkerchief industry."