Insulting Quotes
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Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
Judith Martin -
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 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 -
All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.
Catherine Zeta-Jones -
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
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 -
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 -
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.
Ethan Canin -
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 -
False humility is more insulting than open pride!
Brandon Mull