There was a long exchange in the U.S. Senate involving Stephen Douglas where another senator said that "no one with the upright form of man" would utter such "foul-smelling" words, "Will the Senator from Illinois please take notice?" to which Douglas said, "I will sir, and therefore will not imitate you."
She bellies up to the gourmet cracker-barrel and delivers laid-back wisdom with the serenity of a down-home Buddha who has discovered that stool softeners really work. - - - Florence King (about Molly Ivins)
She is a lady short on looks, absolutely deprived of any dress sense, has a figure like a Jurassic monster . . . very greedy when it comes to loot, no tact and wants to upstage everyone else. - - - Sir Nicholas Fairbairn (about Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York)
A cross between an aardvark and an albino rat. - - - John Simon (about Barbra Streisand)