I'm not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to…

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

— Dustin Hoffman

The big story today, Barack Obama was accused of insulting Sarah Palin when he criticized Republican policies by saying, you can put lipstick on…

— Conan O'Brien

“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults…

— Will Advise

FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

— Joe Orton

You're not insulting my character. Being a woman, especially in this business, it's so thrilling to get to do that. It's so rare, especially…

— Keri Russell

We had to cope with the media writing things which were not true, which were insulting. At around 13 I decided I was just…

— Judit Polgar

What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are…

— Rachel Maddow

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well…

— P. D. James

The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.

— Julius Caesar Scaliger

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

— Jim Butcher

It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it

— Jens Lehmann

I think I like ‘mundane’ better than ‘bloodsucker,’” Simon muttered. “With Jace, you don’t really get to choose your insulting nickname.” -Simon and Clary,…

— Cassandra Clare

Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what you have…

— Thomas Sowell

If you can say something to people that's maybe a little bit insulting, but they're kind of giggling as they are hearing it, if…

— Mark Critch

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word…

— Epictetus