Comeback Quotes

240 quotes by 224 authors

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses;… — Kevyn Aucoin
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. — James A. Baldwin
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. — Edward Abbey
Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me. — Steven Adler
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. — Benazir Bhutto
Well, any good comeback needs some true believers. — John Boehner
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian. — Sitting Bull
We must return to nature and nature's god. — Luther Burbank
It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by… — Julie Burchill
Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice… — David Byrne
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. — Lord Chesterfield
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. — Lord Chesterfield
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. — Lord Chesterfield
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly,… — Margaret Cho
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life… — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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