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Quotes About Insult

I've told you before, Daniel: roach isn't an insult. We're the ones still standing after the mammals build their nukes, we're the ones with the stripped-down OS's so damned simple they work under almost any circumstances. We're the goddamned Kalashnikovs of thinking meat.
~ Peter Watts
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
~ Philip Chesterfield
in a recent article in The Times entitled 'The Ferment of Revolution' 'it was suggested that there was a danger of the vast mass of the people becoming revolutionary in their ideas'. This he found an insult to the working classes.
~ Philip Hoare
Deduct the carrots from your pay, you worthless, swampy fool. from Cavern
~ Phish
un grand usage de l'insulte généalogique (« Fils de bourgeois
~ Pierre Bourdieu
Dana Brooke's entire face looks like it was remodeled after somebody set fire to it and put it out with an axe.
~ Jim Cornette
My father said that I was lower than a dog, because even a dog believes in God.
~ Ari Shaffir
Conservatives are generally the ones who speak more passionately of patriotic values. They are often the first to rise up to protest an insult to the flag. But, in this instance, they reduce America to something rather tight and mean and sour, and they make the flag less beautiful than it should be.
~ Jonathan Kozol
How's it feel to be a worthless jumbo diddly-ass puppetool?
~ Jonathan Lethem
History is always personal—never more so than for those who find theirs is written by the enemy. It strips the defeated and the displaced of their dignity. It is a posthumous insult.
~ A.A. Gill
holy shit reyna you're dogshit no cyap
~ Adolf Hitler
no cyap you're actually braindead reyna not even trolling
~ Adolf Hitler
What is known as the Gymnasium to-day is a positive insult to the Greek institution. Our system of education entirely loses sight of the fact that, in the long run, a healthy mind can exist only in a healthy body. This statement applies with few exceptions, particularly to the broad masses of the nation.
~ Adolf Hitler
Why is it that an insult stays with you forever, whereas love and praise passes through you like water through a sieve?
~ Adrienne Brodeur
Thus it is that most people seem to suffer more from hard words than hard deeds, and are more excited by insult than by actual hurt. What we do to our enemies in war is done of necessity, but the evil we say of them seems to spring from an excess of spite.
~ Plutarch
When the Goddess of Fortune deserts a house, she usually leaves some of her burdens behind, and this ancient family was still encumbered with its host of dependents, though its own shelter was nearly crumbling to dust. These parasites take it to be an insult if they are asked to do any service. They get head-aches at the least touch of the kitchen smoke. They are visited with sudden rheumatism the moment they are asked to run errands.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
You called him a big dumb dodo?" Caroline asked later that night as the two of them sat on Jane's couch watching the gas fireplace lick the fake logs. "Why didn't you go for broke and call him a poo-poo head too?
~ Rachel Gibson
Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are liable to hit out and feel insulted. You know it is absolutely without proof, yet people still commit themselves totally to this belief. They cannot refute it because it is so central to their lives.
~ John Hurt
I don't like doing things without understanding the meaning. Once I walked out of a film event as I could not stand the insult they meted out to a Sanskrit verse.
~ K. J. Yesudas
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
~ Isabel Allende
The peddling of anti-Semitic stereotypes is an insult to a community that has suffered throughout history from the use of such imagery to create the myth of 'the great Jewish conspiracy.'
~ Wes Streeting
We went right on insulting the dead. We went right on spitting on the graves of all the poor ones who died before us...and some day we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest Goddamn steam-shovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up
~ Ray Bradbury
Sid: She laughed and said to her oppo, 'Oh dear, how plebian. Bill: What's 'plebian'? Hancock: Plebian! It's from the latin 'plebes', defined by Pliny as derivative from 'plebiscum'. Bill: Yeah, but what does it mean? Hancock: It means you're a scruffbag!
~ Ray Galton & Alan Simpson
That goddam stunted, red-faced, big-cheeked, apple-cheeked, curlyheaded, midget assed, , google-eyed, undersized, grinning, buck-toothed rat!! Yossarian sputtered. ~ Catch-22
~ Joseph Heller