Best Insulting Sayings
242 Insulting quotes by 196 unique authors
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America ... where laws and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters.
— Bertrand Russell
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I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and…
— Anthony Trollope
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I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the…
— Frances Trollope
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The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological ... at one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a…
— Gore Vidal
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The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.
— Walt Whitman
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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
— Oscar Wilde
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A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean
— Thomas Jefferson
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
— Stendhal
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The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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London, dirty little pool of life
— Unknown Author
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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
— James Agate
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In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
— Aneurin Bevan
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The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and…
— Karel Capek
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Thirty millions, mostly fools.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Sheep with a nasty side.
— Cyril Connolly
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
— Quentin Crisp
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Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.
— Eustache Deschamps
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Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient…
— A. V. Dicey
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It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.
— Alfred Douglas
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All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.
— W.C. Fields
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The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a…
— Clement Freud
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About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it,…
— Clement Freud
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'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the…
— Joseph Furphy
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