Insult Quotes
762 quotes by 579 authors
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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
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Wit is educated insolence.
— Aristotle
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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
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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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
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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
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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
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
— Edward Abbey
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If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
— Johannes Brahms
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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
— Rita Mae Brown
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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
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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
— Sitting Bull
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
— Lord Chesterfield
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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
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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
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
— Woody Allen
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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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