Insulted Quote by Pierre Corneille Download Open image “He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.” — Pierre Corneille ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Insulted
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A person who persistently insults others, can be forced to feel foolish if, he is continuously ignored. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“After all, it is sometimes rather enjoyable to feel insulted, is it not? For the person knows that no one has insulted him, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Such is the caprice of Romans... who reject kings in name but not in practice, and accept an Emperor mightier than a hundred kings. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
“I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?" Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, "Yes, I'm afraid of spiders." "Were you always?" "What… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
I know people are saying they like you. I'm not being insulted or pushed around or anything. People are coming up because they like… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like… — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It's true that tribal rivalries have something to do with political instability. It's also true that those rivalries were exaggerated by colonialism. Colonialism essentially… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth,… — Maria Weston Chapman Copy Share Image
The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history, will probably… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens. — Benjamin Hawkins Copy Share Image
Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
