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Quotes About Insults

I'll tell you one thing I learned from studying History, Kitty. As soon as you see your opponents are reduced to insulting you personally, you know you're on the way to victory.
~ Anne Fine
Somebody sniggered. From Somewhere int he back of the room someone else sneered, "Yeah, Hazel ," which was not the greatest insult ever, but one thing Hazel had learned at her new school was when it comes to insults it's the thought that counts
~ Anne Ursu
Empathy is why entertainment is always growing, and for millennials, everyone is judging them and trying to grab their attention by insulting them. We're living in a time where everyone has 25 profiles, and they're having 25 conversations.
~ Alia Shawkat
The existence of laws for the association of ideas, as for all intellectual operations, insults our native indiscipline.
~ Fernando Pessoa
A life of aesthetic quietism, to prevent the insults and humiliations of life and the living from getting any closer than a loathsome periphery of our sensibility, outside the walls of our conscious soul.
~ Fernando Pessoa
To be the coach of Real Madrid is an honour, and every coach has pride in that. However, one is also subjected to a wide range of critiques - some just, but others not. But when the criticism deteriorates into insults, which has happened many times, I don't appreciate that.
~ Manuel Pellegrini
Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.
~ Jon Ronson
I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.
~ Michel Houellebecq
By stereotyping my work's audience as self-involved and prissy, women-only packaging also insults my readers, who could all testify that trussing up my novels as sweet, girly, and soft is like stuffing a Rottweiler in a dress.
~ Lionel Shriver
Funny mutie," said one of the older ones. He wasn't laughing. The attack was sudden, and almost took Mark by surprise; he thought etiquette demanded they exchange a few more insults first, and he was just working up some good ones.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
You observe … that when it's time to unleash a few insults, a man will always choose his mother tongue.
~ Salman Rushdie
Always the ones quickest to insults got the thinnest skin, for some reason.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You have to pass the test of overlooking insults, ignoring what people say. They wouldn't be talking about you if you weren't making a difference, if you weren't a leader, if you weren't shining brightly.
~ Joel Osteen
We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
These tribes differed little from one another, either in appearance or in language. They spoke different dialects, which they could all understand if they chose. But they very rarely did. For, as is often the case, these close-related, neighbouring tribes were unable to get on with one another. They spent all their time exchanging insults and ridicule, when actually they were jealous of each other.
~ E.H. Gombrich
While Matt Bevin insults and bullies educators, I care about showing our teachers respect, protecting their pensions, and making public education a top priority.
~ Andy Beshear
There's criticism, and there's calling someone a fridge.
~ Gemma Collins
Where do you learn this stuff?" "Don't you ever get bored?" Cassidy asked. "Yeah, but I don't Google 'German insults.'" "Why not? It's fascinating.
~ Robyn Schneider
No complete son of a bitch ever wrote a good sentence.
~ Malcolm Cowley
At its worst, privilege is blindness, allowing us to blithely go on in our god playing, not even aware of the insults to image bearers that happen under our noses every day.
~ Andy Crouch
There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.
~ Ann Brashares
Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'. Get stuffed, Bovril said, then giggled. And it insults people, Telsa said. How peculiar.
~ Scott Westerfeld
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~ Elbert Hubbard