Insults Quotes

280 quotes by 233 authors

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
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
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
It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God — Brigit of Kildare
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. — Louis Nizer
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
If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life. — Deepak Chopra
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
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
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
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
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
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one. — George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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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