Insult Quotes
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Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
William Shakespeare
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People having religions is an insult to the universe.
Celia Green
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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
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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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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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Never insult someone's OTP, if they kill you, it's your fault.
Dan Howell
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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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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
Rita Mae Brown
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No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico
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[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
Virginia Woolf
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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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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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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
William Francis Buckley
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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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“One should honour women and not insult anyone. If there was”
Anand Neelakantan
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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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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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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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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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To every insult we receive we will offer a proposal, to every defamatory remark, an idea, and to every exaggeration, a smile.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
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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
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Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
William Shakespeare
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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