Insult Quote by H. G. Wells

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for…

— Richard Mitchell

“So he worked. He lost weight; he walked light on the earth. Lack of physical labor, lack of variety of occupation, lack of social…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that,…

— Ernest Hemingway

“My prose was clunky compared to his. I got hung up on diction and syntax; I agonized over every word. Matt's prose flowed effortlessly.…

— M. Pierce

He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to spare in…

— Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

“He had no document but his memory; the training he had acquired with each added hexameter gave him a discipline unsuspected by those who…

— Jorge Luís Borges

“The fewer sacrifices a man is required to make, the more loath he will be to make those few. His”

— Fulton J. Sheen

. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death…

— William Shakespeare

“Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladled in a few such Scriptural…

— Mark Twain

“...-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat…

— Aleksandar Hemon