Elevator to the Gallows - Quote

There's a great line in the 1958 film "Elevator to the Gallows".

"You read. It gives you great ideas."

Great Insults

Webster has a list of some great and rarely used insults.


01. Cockalorum
- a boastful and self-important person; a strutting little fellow


02. Lickspittle
- a fawning subordinate; a suck-up


03. Smellfungus
- an excessively faultfinding person


04. Snollygoster (different from Snollygaster, btw)
- an unprincipled but shrewd person


05. Ninnyhammer
- ninny; simpleton, fool


06. Mumpsimus
- a stubborn person who insists on making an error in spite of being shown that it is wrong


07. Milksop
- an unmanly man; a mollycoddle (a pampered or effeminate boy or man)


08. Hobbledehoy
- an awkward, gawky young man


09. Pettifogger
- shyster; a lawyer whose methods are underhanded or disreputable


10. Mooncalf
- a foolish or absentminded person

E M Forster Quote

EM Forster once said, "I'm quite sure I'm not a great novelist. Because I've only got down onto paper really three types of people: The person I think I am, the people who irritate me and the people I'd like to be. When you get to the really great people, like Tolstoy, you find they can get hold of all types."