Best 380 quotes in «insult quotes» category

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The hypocrite takes good advice as an insult.

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 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 but for the grace of God, goes God.

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

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.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

To tolerate is to insult.

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.

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

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

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 comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

What are you doing here?! (Aimee) Come to inadvertently insult you some more apparently. Who knew? (Fang)

We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

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.

We respect women and don't insult them by saying all they care about is reproductive rights. All issues are women's issues.

When I haven't been kissed in a long time, I create civil disturbances, then insult the cops who show up, till one of them grabs me by the collar and hurls me up against the squad car, so I can remember, at least for a moment, what it's like to be touched.

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.

When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

Where did you get your haircut, the pet shop?

Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?