Insulting Quotes

• Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Thrift

• The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • World
  • English

• It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

  

  Bosie
  • Life
  • Bible
  • Pay

• Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Good
  • Wine
  • Bottles

• All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Insulting
  • Swallowing
  • Plums

• To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Insulting
  • Statesman
  • Brad Pitt

• Sometimes you have to lose a lot of Q-tips before you realize you have a hole in your head. Colors Insulting To Nature

  

  Cintra Wilson
  • Lose
  • Head
  • Hole

• I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Helping
  • Blame
  • Criticize

• You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Olympics
  • Allies
  • Insulting

• The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

  

  Wilma Scott Heide
  • Moving
  • Insulting

• If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • May
  • Person
  • Denigrating

• You'd much rather act with a pal, someone you know really well. That way, you can cut all the niceties and go right to insulting each other.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Way
  • Cutting
  • Pals

• I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say "old."

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • Shoulders
  • Diagnosis
  • Insulting

• The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Want
  • Political

• In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

  

  Helmut Lang
  • Men
  • Women
  • Certain

• Whether it's a professional, academic keeping people out by using certain mystifying language, or technologists presenting their work as incredibly complicated, no one can understand it (especially not "moms," who are always invoked as the ultimate know-nothings, which is incredibly insulting to a whole lot of people).

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Language
  • Complicated
  • Academic

• New socialize by insulting each other, but don`t really mean it. Woman socialize by complimenting each other but don`t really mean it

  

  Granger Smith
  • Mean
  • Compliment
  • Insulting

• No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Dirty
  • Depends
  • Intention

• An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of Jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. It's totally self-deprecating.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Mother
  • Interesting
  • Kind

• For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those video gigs was that kids don't read as much news and basically need to be read to, which I found really problematic and kind of insulting. I thought, Isn't it just that you don't have any money and that's why you want me to make some crappy "content" for your website?

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Kind

• We make fun of them in front of their faces, and laugh at them for not understanding we are insulting them.

  

  Bowe Bergdahl
  • Fun
  • Laugh
  • Insulting

• Im not sure which is more insulting, being offered in a trade or having it turned down.

  

  Claude Osteen
  • Trade
  • Insulting
  • Turned Down

• Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what you have said. If you believe that, try insulting your boss when you go to work tomorrow. Better yet, try insulting your spouse before going to bed tonight.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Judging
  • Boss

• I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to stay in China." The thought visibly struck him, and his head came up with sudden enthusiasm. "If I were very offensive, do you suppose they would go away now?" he asked. "Laurence, what would be particularly insulting" Hammond looked like Pandora, the box open and horrors loose upon the world. Laurence was inclined to laugh, but he stifled it out of sympathy.

  

  Naomi Novik
  • World
  • Care
  • Laughing

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