Best 380 quotes in «insult quotes» category

I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get...Is that because women are considered something less?

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

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult, and I decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces that I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.

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.

It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me.

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

I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

It was simultaneously refreshing and a bit shocking to see how cavalierly most Aussies toss out slurs and insults about nonwhites.

I usually do drive-by insults, and keep moving until I realize the next day how horrible I am.

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

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

Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!

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.

my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

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

Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning

Never insult seven men if you're only carrying a six shooter.

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.

Nobody's too fat - they're just too short.

Never spit in front of women and children, and never insult the great state of Texas.

No one can insult you without your permission.

Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.

Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.

Now, granted, there are still as many heartbreaking things going on. There are so many things in the Obama administration to be sick over that certainly didn't change. And also our media, if it's possible, seems to be getting even worse. The alleged news media. And then there are the teabag racists adding insult to injury. But I don't have that same heartbreak anymore, because it's not fresh heartbreak anymore. It's like I'm used to it. I'm sure we all are just used to it.

Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.

One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.