Insult Quotes

762 quotes by 556 authors

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own… — William Bagley
Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act,… — Robert McKee
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. — D. H. Lawrence
Let others know when they have hurt or angered you. By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission… — Beverly Engel
A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. — John Holmes
When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the… — Gautama Buddha
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
Rather than put ourselves down continually, we must work hard to concentrate on our positives, focusing on that which makes us unique and likable. We… — Unknown Author
Uninvited criticism is insult. — John L'Heureux
To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a… — Dave Hunt
She's so ugly, the tide wouldn't take her out. — Unknown Author
Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as… — John Smith
It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness. — Eliza Bisbee Duffey
Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It's not fear of striking out that makes me reluctant to step up to the plate. It's the fear of getting hit in the head… — Unknown Author
To say that Agatha Christieâ€™s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs. — Ruth Rendell
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives… — David Ogilvy
The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect. — Kresley Cole
The poetâ€™s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. Weâ€™re hunched and weaving over… — Eileen Myles
To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. — Ronald Reagan

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