25 People's Favorite Screw You's of History

Eric Lund

Jun 13, 2022 11:00 AM EDT

There are so many ways to express your distaste for someone. A lot of the time we simply bottle it up until the emotion explodes all over our loved ones. But there are other ways. Aside from legendary quips, there have been people who started massively successful companies just to tell someone else that the suck. We've all ended altercations with inward-facing impotent rage, so why not do something productive with it, like write an award winning children's film? That's something right? They say living a good life is the best revenge, but maybe put more specifically, "becoming massively successful out of spite" is tied for first.

In any event, we can all use this as inspiration to express ourselves in productive, clever and terrifically vindictive ways to the people who wrong us. For some sweet hot brutal witticisms, here are big brassy comebacks that filled people's pants with wit.