Insults Quotes
280 quotes by 233 authors
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come…
— Margaret Atwood
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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
— Hillary Clinton
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It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God
— Brigit of Kildare
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A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
— Louis Nizer
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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
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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
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If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life.
— Deepak Chopra
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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
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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
— Raoul Vaneigem
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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
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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
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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
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Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.
— Danielle Steel
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Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul and your very…
— Walt Whitman
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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made…
— Mark Twain
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Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my…
— Rachael Ray
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