Insult Quotes
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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
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Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
William Bennett
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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
Rita Mae Brown
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People having religions is an insult to the universe.
Celia Green
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Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
William Shakespeare
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Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.
Paul Gauguin
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Never insult someone's OTP, if they kill you, it's your fault.
Dan Howell
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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
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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
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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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To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.
Zicheng Hong
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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
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Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.
Ernest Renan
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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
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“One should honour women and not insult anyone. If there was”
Anand Neelakantan
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Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
William Shakespeare
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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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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
William Francis Buckley
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[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
Virginia Woolf
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This is not an insult. This is a statement of the harsh reality of the economic data that people should look at.
Eliot Spitzer
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This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.
William Emerson Arnett
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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