Quotes About Insults
If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~ Elbert Hubbard
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If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~ Elbert Hubbard
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I was enchanted. Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. I remember the dialect on my mother's lips when she lost that gentle cadence and yelled at us, poisoned by her unhappiness: I can't take you anymore, I can't take any more. Commands, shouts, insults, life stretching into her words, as when a frayed nerve is just touched, and the pain scrapes away all self-control.
~ Elena Ferrante
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Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. I remember the dialect on my mother's lips when she lost that gentle cadence and yelled at us, poisoned by her unhappiness: I can't take you anymore, I can't take any more. Commands, shouts, insults, life stretching into her words, as when a frayed nerve is just touched, and the pain scrapes away all self-control.
~ Elena Ferrante
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Insults should be written in the sand, and praises carved in stone.
~ Arab proverb
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Research shows that insults actually intensify people's opposition to one's point of view.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
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These are practical reasons to avoid them, but there's the moral reason, too: they're just plain wrong. We simply should not put up with insults, whether from the other side or our own. Indeed, I'll take it a step further. When someone on your side insults people on the other side, it is your responsibility to take it personally and stand up for those with whom you disagree.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
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The only reason I was allowed to have a career for a quarter century as an insult comic is because it's all in jest and all for fun.
~ Lisa Lampanelli
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I realized that I get pleasure when I'm told, 'Don't listen to the haters; they're losers in their moms' basements.' I imagine these 'losers' and feel better about myself. Their insults hurt less if I label them 'pathetic.' I diminish their value in order to protect mine. I noticed that I'm quick to make a joke at someone else's expense.
~ Julie Plec
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'Liberal Fascism' is less an expose of left-wing hypocrisy than a chance to exact political revenge. Yet, the title of his book aside, what distinguishes Goldberg from the Sean Hannitys and Michael Savages is a witty intelligence that deals in ideas as well as insults - no mean feat in the nasty world of the culture wars.
~ David Oshinsky
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In TV writing, Armando Iannucci's satire 'The Thick of It' is brilliant - equal parts hysterically funny, terrifyingly believable, and Oh-my-God-I-can't-believe-he-actually-said-that - and it's got the most satisfyingly creative insults ever.
~ Tana French
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Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
~ Lionel Blue
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In fact, I judge a driver by the amount of abuse he gets from other drivers. If, in the course of a day's journey, his sister or mother is insulted on at least six occasions, then I begin to suspect that there is something wrong with the way he drives. If he returns the insults tenfold, I ask him to stop, and get off before we are assaulted.
~ Ruskin Bond
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The truth about insults: If somebody unjustly insults you it means nothing, except that maybe they're assholes, or maybe even they're incompetent, but if somebody justly insults you, then it means something.
~ Ryan Pack
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Uop?e nisu bili loši ljudi. Samo su bili isprazna stvorenja. Sve neprimjereno što bi uradili dolazilo je odatle. Pred zijevaju?om prazninom svoje vlastite unutrašnjosti mogu su osvijestiti svoju li?nost i zadovoljiti se samo dok druge ljude tretiraju kao nevažne, vrije?aju ih i smiju im se.
~ Sabahattin Ali
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Dwell on thoughts that are in harmony with nature and her laws, and act accordingly. Don't let yourself be pulled off course by the insults or injuries of others. Let them go their way and you go yours, continuing on the path of reason. This is not selfish or antisocial on your part—far from it. Your individual reason is not opposed to the common good, but in harmony with it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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He lacked the energy to work the crowd, he was fresh out of innocuous drivel... Saggy boobs, ran the thought balloon in his head. Bunfaced tofubrain. Thumbsucking posterboy. Fridgewoman. Sell his granny. Wobble-bummed bovine. Bladderheaded jerk.
~ Margaret Atwood
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Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
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The two groupings soon acquired names, originally intended as insults. Those hostile to the Duke of York were known as "Whigs," short for "Whiggamore," a term formerly applied to extremist Presbyterian rebels in Scotland. Their more traditionalist opponents were dubbed "Tories," after the lawless Catholic bandits who rampaged in Ireland.
~ Anne Somerset
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When people want to insult a man, they cast slurs upon his courage. But the worst they can say about a woman is to impugn her chastity.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
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But, like water falling drop by drop onto your face for hours and days and weeks, that tiny insults slowly came to have enormous power over me.
~ Sherman Alexie
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You need to up your vocabulary, boy. You can't walk around letting people think you're stupid. Expand your horizons. Besides, it's fun to call people names they have to look up to realize they've been insulted. (Mark) Yeah, that's a twofer there. You get away with it and then they're twice as mad when they realize how bad you really insulted them. Especially if they mistake it for a compliment when you say it and thank you for it. (Bubba)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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So…that's like your pet monkey?" – Nick (The tiny horse snorted flames and whinnied at him.) "Easy, girl. You'd do well to show her respect. She can understand you, and she doesn't take well to insults." – Death "Sorry, Flicka. Didn't mean to rattle your bridle." – Nick
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Now leave. (Adron) Why would I want to do that? I mean, heaven forbid I should be around someone who actually likes me. It's so much more fun to be here with you insulting my manhood and questioning my parentage every five seconds. (Tiernan)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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