Insult Quotes

762 Insult quotes by 556 unique authors

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
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof… — Samuel Johnson
Being bored is an insult to oneself. — Jules Renard
She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley. — Barack Obama
Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry… — L. Neil Smith
For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be aware. Somebody insults… — Rajneesh
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,… — Ivan Pavlov
Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy. — Danielle Steel
And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it,… — Pat Condell
If I love myself I will express that love in my interactions with you, and then I am being impeccable with the word, because that… — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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