Insulting Quotes
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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
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Im not sure which is more insulting, being offered in a trade or having it turned down.
Claude Osteen
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Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
Judith Martin
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Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
Evan Esar
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I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!
Sherman Alexie
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I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.
Ethan Canin
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I wonder if you men have any idea of how insulting it is to women when you assume that all we can offer is our bodies?
Ellen Kushner
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False humility is more insulting than open pride!
Brandon Mull
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I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.
Mike Piazza
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In building the helping relationship, encouragement—via positive reinforcement—certainly seems appropriate. But if it is not sensitively handled, such encouragement can quickly become patronizing and insulting.
Edgar Schein