Quotes About Insults
Insults must be done with intention, or they are not insults.
~ Thomas Mann
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In English class, someone flung a folded-up square of notebook paper onto the floor next to my right foot. I picked it up and opened it. It read, Bitch! Nobody had ever called me that before, and though I was automatically furious, deep down i was also flattered that I had elicited enough emotion to be worthy of the name.
~ Gayle Forman
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We went to church sometimes, so it's not like Mom had anything against religion, but Kerry totally did and Mom was ferociously protective of the people she loved, so much that she took insults up them personally.
~ Gayle Forman
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Arrogant dickhead!" "Screeching harpy." "Asshole." "Bitch.
~ Ilona Andrews
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For decades, Robert Mugabe has thumbed his nose at the world. The long-time dictator has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist, repeatedly insulted foreign dignitaries, ignored regional and international agreements to which he was a signatory, and isolated the country from any legitimate international economic or political engagement.
~ Roy Bennett
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So you become numb to insults, particularly if you teach yourself to imagine that the person uttering them is a variant of a noisy ape with little personal control. Just keep your composure, smile, focus on analyzing the speaker not the message, and you'll win the argument. An ad hominem attack against an intellectual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message. The psychologist
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small. If you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand. Nothing. And when you take risks, insults by half-men, small men, those who don't risk anything, are similar to barks by non-human animals. You can't feel insulted by a dog.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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And when you take risks, insults by half-men (small men, those who don't risk anything) are similar to barks by nonhuman animals: you can't feel insulted by a dog.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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You are so obtuse! Brontë says, exasperated. I am calm in my response. Do you mean stupid, or angular? You need to be more specific with your insults.
~ Neal Shusterman
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Sorry, I should have warned you." Apologies are the keystone of an enduring relationship. Failing to apologize for mistakes, or getting onto a treadmill of belittling insults, is a bad warning sign. So far we've avoided it, but .
~ Charles Stross
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What do you mean, a ghost? The Honorable James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame, heir to the fourteenth Earl of Hardsdale, is taking no insults from young girls!
~ Kerstin Gier
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Confucius says the wise man forgets insults just as the ungrateful man forgets good deeds.
~ Kerstin Gier
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
~ William Hazlitt
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Hey, asshole," Lash said to the sw'old-up one, "your boyfriend give you those p-tats? Or was he too busy fucking you in the ass?" The guy's eyes narrowed. "What'd you say to me?" The gangbanger shook his head. "Gotta be out ya damn mind, white boy." Skinhead laughed like a blender, high and fast. Who knew recruiting would be this easy, Lash thought. *
~ J.R. Ward
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I love insults, devastating takedowns, things that could be described by Twitter hacks as 'shots fired,' and funny ad hominem attacks.
~ Alex Pareene
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There's a lot of talk about people being abused on Twitter, women being savagely insulted and degraded. I think, 'Why get into that in the first place?' If I jump into a garbage bin, I can't complain that I've got rubbish all over me.
~ Steven Berkoff
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All we need to remember is that Trump loves the hate. He thrives on criticism and insults. He delights in chaos and confusion. Taking to Twitter to call him names only fuels him and riles his base.
~ Omarosa Manigault Newman
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Most people, when they think of an insult, they keep it to themselves. But you wouldn't believe the things people say on my Twitter feed, and I'm a nice guy. Imagine if I was a jerk.
~ Jeff Ross
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I've definitely met nightmare Hollywood types who think they're getting twenty million dollars a picture when they're not. But they act like it. And they just insult everybody.
~ Brendan Sexton III
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Those of us who have feeling, who are sensitive, who can be affected, need a good shield. Footballers are very young and they're exposed. Even at under-15s, players have Twitter and I'm sure they're already getting insults... it's ugly, it sullies society and football.
~ Bojan Krkic
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Anti-Semitic insults by 'Svoboda' have caused outrage on number of occasions both in Ukraine and in Israel.
~ Avigdor Lieberman
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Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends.
~ Derrick Wolf
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He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.
~ Paulo Coelho
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Don't take insults to you heart, because bad words comes from stupid people and good words comes from smart people. If you think about it what kind of person it was who said bad words and what kind of person it was who said good words, you understand. You can't take stupid people words seriously and you can take smart people words seriously. I'm not perfect.
~ Tarvo Tannebaum
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