Insult Quotes

762 Insult quotes by 556 unique authors

Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public… — Eric Liu
We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing. — Victor Hugo
He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices. — Gore Vidal
The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg. — Edmund Wilson
[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples. — Virginia Woolf
Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his… — Rex Stout
Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing. — Robert Breault
We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those… — Alexander McCall Smith
A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to… — Jaron Lanier
Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation… — Oscar Wilde
Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you. — Andy Andrews
When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in… — Oswald Chambers
Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him… — Herman Melville
He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom. — Paulo Coelho
If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you. — Bill Russell
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss… — Sebastian Junger
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no… — E F Schumacher
Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning — Si Robertson
Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different. — Rick Warren
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
Insult me all you want. Judge me as much as you want. Say what you think, everything you want. But one thing. Dont touch my… — Michael Jackson
To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Begging in the Name of Jesus is an insult to His Name. Use His Name as a king, with boldness! — Chris Oyakhilome
Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He didn't ask… — Dale Carnegie
O Lord Most-wise, strengthen us by Your power that we not fear the non-believing world neither when they lash us with whips nor when they… — Nikolaj Velimirovic

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