Best 148 quotes in «insulting quotes» category

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.

The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.

The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless. And also it's insulting. It's implying that the work is not an adequate account of itself. To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

The message coming out of Washington, especially from our leftist politicians and the news media, is that we solve our budget problems by raising taxes on the rich. If Americans were more informed, such a message would be insulting to our intelligence. There are not enough rich people to satisfy Congress' appetite.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

The way Donald Trump talks about terrorism and his very insulting language towards Muslims is making him the recruiting sergeant for ISIS.

They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield.

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth.

There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.

This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas - because they simply don't know about its existence or they don't know how it operates.

This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.

To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

We didn't raise this issue, the courts raised it. The courts jammed it down our throats, at the risk of insulting any of my gay male fans.

To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.

Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from other countries.

When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.

To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.

When Donald Trump is in trouble, he starts yelling, he starts screaming. He starts insulting. He starts cursing.

You'd much rather act with a pal, someone you know really well. That way, you can cut all the niceties and go right to insulting each other.

With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname.

What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are being obstructionist for wanting to see documents, for wanting to see a paper trail, for wanting to get questions answered in the judiciary committee hearings, and now all of a sudden, the Republicans want those things for this.

When I visited North Korea in November 2014, is that Kim Jong-un is not merely the head of state of the DPRK - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea - he's also their deity. So, when you insult him as the head of state, you're also insulting the deity, which of course the regime plays to a fare-thee-well to the domestic audience there.

When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.

You’ve got to have a little more confidence in us than that. It’s insulting.

Whether it's a professional, academic keeping people out by using certain mystifying language, or technologists presenting their work as incredibly complicated, no one can understand it (especially not "moms," who are always invoked as the ultimate know-nothings, which is incredibly insulting to a whole lot of people).

A man is a penis-wrinkle when calling him a dickhead would be a compliment.

Ball?” said one of the Pistons with interest. “We like balls.” Dimity gave them her best, most haughty look. “Yes, but are you certain they like you?

You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials

All my friends are getting married and having babies. I'm just getting more awesome

Avoid the use of abusive words in communications that may switch off the attention of your mentor and your customers away.

Being insulted offers you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.

But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it's being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it's that much more of an insult, that you're not even worth noticing.

Do you always introduce yourself by insulting people?

I once heard of a class teacher who’d punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever a student wearing blue shirt had committed a mistake. I thought that was pretty bad. I then heard of a class teacher who’d punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever someone in blue shirt committed a mistake somewhere else. Clearly, the worst is not a reality.

Every insult is an opportunity.

If someone calls you a failure it's more than likely they feel like one.

Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults dictionary, which I stole.

I remembered that Johnson had declared portrait painting to be an improper employment for a woman. “Public practice of any art and staring in men’s faces is very indelicate in a female,” he had said. Well I’d seen Dr. Johnson’s face in the book’s frontispiece and I couldn’t imagine anyone male or female wanting to stare into it for any length of time —the man was an absolute toad.

Thinking before taking actions is useful only if you are going to take action, otherwise you are wasting time and insulting your mind.

It was an odd bit of doggerel. First the flame and then the flood, in the end it's Blackthorn blood.