Insult Quotes
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Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
William Shakespeare -
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.
Steve Albini Big Black
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You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.
William Goldman -
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
Rita Mae Brown -
[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
Virginia Woolf -
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.
Scott Westerfeld -
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.
Seneca the Younger -
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
William Hazlitt
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It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?
Jay-Z -
People having religions is an insult to the universe.
Celia Green -
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
William Francis Buckley -
O Lord Most-wise, strengthen us by Your power that we not fear the non-believing world neither when they lash us with whips nor when they insult us with words for Your sake.
Nikolaj Velimirovic -
This is not an insult. This is a statement of the harsh reality of the economic data that people should look at.
Eliot Spitzer -
My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.
Amy Lee Evanescence
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It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.
Clementine Ford -
Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.
William Shakespeare -
I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
To a lot of people that would be an insult. They have been publicly out looking at how many different names and everyone turned it down and they come back and ask you?
Craig Fugate -
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.
Virginia Woolf -
Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?
Mahatma Gandhi
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There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.
Alexei Panshin -
This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.
William Emerson Arnett -
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
Seneca the Younger -
When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight. But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.
Bonnie Greer