Best 380 quotes in «insult quotes» category

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

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.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

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

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.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.

Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission.

She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)

Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

She's so ugly, the tide wouldn't take her out.

Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.

The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.

Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.

The concept of fate is an open insult against man's willpower!

The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

The members of the Islamic Staye have cut the throat of an American on television. This is an insult to the United States, which requires that we demonstrate that this is not an act that is free. I would strongly favor a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American.

The hypocrite takes good advice as an insult.

The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other. --Slavoj Zizek

There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims.

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

There but for the grace of God, goes God.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

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

There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity.

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.

The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.

The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.

They call me a right-winger, which is an insult - I'm simply a racist and a separatist.

To call "A Lot like Love" dead in the water is an insult to water.

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.

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.

To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.

To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

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

To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

To tolerate is to insult.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

We are searching for the same thing,” Stripey said. “How do you know?” Janco asked. “I read his mind.” The Sitian pointed to Ari. “Yours was too…chaotic. Too many useless thoughts to wade through.” A compliment or an insult? Janco guessed compliment and preened.

We do not need to have a president who insults Mexicans and Latinos and Muslims and women and veterans and African-Americans, we need a president who brings us together, not divides us up.