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Quotes About Insults

When my reputation was at its height, classmates insulted me right to my face as I walked down the hall. When a teacher called on me, boys snickered and girls rolled their eyes. My body and face burned. I felt mortified. I contemplated suicide.
~ Leora Tanenbaum
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 that he has never known trouble.
~ lewis sinclair
'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.
~ Judith Martin
There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable - this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.
~ Lynn Coady
Hysterics are the hallmark of the production of genius. Insults are its common currency.
~ Jean Anouilh
I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.
~ Norman Finkelstein
Frog-faced blobs of camel spit?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
ability to come up with witty rejoinders whenever someone insulted her.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I do hope Diana don't savage Henage on the way back,' said Jack, 'You might not think it, but he is a very sensitive cove, and he feels harsh words extremely. I remember when his father called him a vile concupiscent waste-thrift whoremonger he brooded over it the whole evening.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression.
~ Paulo Coelho
You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
~ Dick Cavett
The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art
~ William Blake
Thou mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!
~ William Shakespeare
Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*
~ William Shakespeare
George stared across the street. 'There is only one trouble with the Poldarks,' he said after a moment. 'They cannot take a beating.' 'And only one trouble with the Warleggans,' said Ross. 'They never know when they are not wanted.' George's color deepened. 'But they can appreciate and remember an insult.' 'Well, I trust you will remember this one.' Ross turned his back and went down the steps into the tavern.
~ Winston Graham
You . . . person," he says; and again, "you nobody from Hell, you whore-spawn, you cluster of evil, you lawyer.
~ Hilary Mantel
They both took it all in stride, although Renny harangued his fans with loud and profane insults. They seemed to like it, and it certainly kept Robert amused.
~ Jeff Lindsay
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~ Jerome K. Jerome
Insults are the business of the court.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
If you ever try to change my memories again, I will slap you into next spring." I took a breath, knees shaking as I felt small beside him, my white dress brushing against his black trousers. Some women get flowers or poems from their suitors. I get insults and threats.
~ Unknown
Tant qu'on fait rire, c'est des plaisanteries. Dès que c'est pas drôle, c'est des insultes. It's a joke as long as people are laughing. If it's not funny, it's an insult.
~ Coluche
Oh incomprehensible pederasts, I shall not heap insults upon your great degradation; I shall not be the one to pour scorn on your infundibuliform anus. It is enough that the shameful and almost incurable maladies which besiege you should bring with them their unfailing punishments.
~ Comte de Lautreamont