Abusive Quote by Seneca the Younger

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is no creature better at delicate rudeness than a cat...”

— Elizabeth Peters

“If you can try to nap where someone's sitting, Although there is another empty chair, Then rub against his ankle without quitting Until he…

— Henry N. Beard

“Laughter, then, shows us the boundaries that language is too shy to make explicit. In this way, humor can be extremely useful for exploring…

— Kevin Simler

“[It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97”

— Marcel Benabou

“Mockery is just hate’s patina, and every laugh is vicious.”

— Steven Erikson

“It was the least I could do,” Po said, drily, “and I see you’ve already skinned that hare. I’m beginning to think I won’t…

— Kristin Cashore

“He sighed loudly, but it was interrupted part of the way through with another short laugh. “You’ve spent the majority of your life being…

— Anonymous

“Humour is the best weapon to fight any battle. But there is a thin line between humour and humiliation and beware not to cross…

— Girish Kohli

“I realized that cats make a perfect audience, they don't laugh at you, they never contradict you, there's no need to impress them, and…

— Elle Newmark

As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Ridicule is one of the favorite weapons of wickedness, and it is sometimes incomprehensible how good and brave boys will be influenced for evil…

— Theodore Roosevelt ridicule bullying