Insult Quotes

762 Insult quotes by 556 unique authors

No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you speak insults you will hear them also. — Plautus
We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public… — Oscar Wilde
Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than… — Samuel Johnson
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult. — John Quincy Adams
Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling… — Paul Gauguin
When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered… — Sathya Sai Baba
I wouldn't be surprised if one day Carl's halo slipped and choked him. — Carl Lewis
I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West.… — Mahesh Bhatt
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with… — Walter J. Phillips
And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight,… — Thomas Paine
I'm always at my best when I'm fighting a guy who insults me..questions my integrity; it lights more fire in me. — Georges St-Pierre
In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style. — Criss Jami
A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion. — Jean de la Bruyere
How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune. — Henry Fielding
And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God? — Alexander Pope
In a safe Western world where we're not being shot at and we're not starving, the worst thing that happens to us most days is… — Ricky Gervais
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. — Sigmund Freud
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is… — Stephen Fry
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. — Thomas Fuller
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. — John Kenneth Galbraith
People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't… — Noel Gallagher
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. — Edmond de Goncourt
We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. — Mason Cooley

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