Insult Quotes

762 Insult quotes by 556 unique authors

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
Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want? — Mason Cooley
If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. — Simon Cowell
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. — Aleister Crowley
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant… — Clarence Darrow
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. — Charles Darwin
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. — Benjamin Disraeli
Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with… — Beth Ditto
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. — Frederick Douglass
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting. — Epictetus
Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each… — Paul Feig

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