Best Insulting Thoughts
242 Insulting quotes by 196 unique authors
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In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with…
— Matthew Arnold
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When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'
— Janeane Garofalo
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When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'
— Dick Gregory
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Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids…
— Phil Collins
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
— E E Cummings
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
— Epictetus
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I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so…
— Charlie Kaufman
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Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and…
— Artie Lange
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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
— Fran Lebowitz
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Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
— Judith Martin
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'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking…
— Judith Martin
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The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really…
— Toni Morrison
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Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who…
— Grover Norquist
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A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
— George Orwell
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Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.
— John Podhoretz
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the…
— Carl Sandburg
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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It…
— Tracey Ullman
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Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head." Eddie DeChooch
— Janet Evanovich
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Life is too short to learn German
— Oscar Wilde
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I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you…
— Jane Austen
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They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
— Evan Esar
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I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you…
— Virginia Satir
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Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is…
— Saul Alinsky
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