Insult Quotes

If you lend someone 20 dollars and never see that person again, it's probably worth it.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.

It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

Let them push you, but do not push; Let them crucify you, but do not crucify. Let them insult, but do not insult. Let them slander, but do not slander. Be meek, and do not be zealous in evil.

It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations

An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.

You cannot insult the faith of others.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.

Koga:"You got a problem with that muttface?" Inuyasha: Did you just call me a mutt?" Koga:"No, you're right. That would be an insult to canines.

Insults are the business of the court.

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.

Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.