Insult Quotes

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It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God — Brigit of Kildare
A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he… — Symeon the New Theologian
It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of… — Galen Strawson
Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. — Louis Nizer
I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense… — Emma Stone
There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can… — Sun Tzu
During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us,… — Philip Neri
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or… — Seneca the Younger
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. — Samuel Johnson
Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot… — Ernest Belfort Bax
If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life. — Deepak Chopra
The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature… — Robert Bly
Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay… — Alan Coren
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes. — John Dewey
Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war. — Thomas Jefferson
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. — Baron de Montesquieu
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. — Raoul Vaneigem
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest. — Charles Caleb Colton

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