Insult Quotes

762 quotes by 579 authors

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way. — J. J. Abrams
Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
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
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative… — Rowan Atkinson
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come… — Margaret Atwood
I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for… — Stephen Baldwin
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. — Edward Abbey
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon. — Johannes Brahms
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. — Rita Mae Brown
There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms… — James Buchan
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
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
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
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. — Woody Allen
Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity. — Hillary Clinton

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