Quotes About Insult

And you're a maggot-infested string bean," muttered Louis. "What?" asked Mr. K. "I said, you're a magnificent human being.

I don't believe any of you suffer as I do, cried Amy, for you don't have to go to school with impertinent girls, who plague you if you don't know your lessons, and laugh at your dresses, and label your father if he isn't rich, and insult you when your nose isn't nice.

Popart was oorspronkelijk bedoeld als een belediging, maar al in 1963 moest Lichtensteien in een interview vaststellen dat het moeilijk was een schilderij te maken dat de mensen niet aan de wand zouden willen hangen: alles werd aan de wand gehangen, de mensen zouden eraan gewend raken. Zelfs tegen de alom afgewezen commerciële kunst was men niet haatdragend genoeg.

You're a hidjus old pollywobble!

Because the comic hero deviates, by the nature of his role, from social norms, he leads an alienated existence: he is slapped, reviled, insulted, treated as an outcast, disinherited. Yet he bears everything with the rigid patience of the wise Fool, whose foolery is in his passport to safety. (In his introduction to Habiby's Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist)

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

The idea that any kind of free society can be constructed in which people will never be offended or insulted, or in which they have the right to call on the law to defend them against being offended or insulted, is absurd... The moment you say that an idea system is sacred, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

Durerile mari sunt într-atât de venerabile, încât nu exist? exemplu, chiar în epocile cele mai nefericite, ca miÈ™carea dintâi a maselor s? nu fi fost o miÈ™care de simpatie pentru o mare catastrof?. MulÈ›i oameni duÈ™m?niÈ›i au fost asasinaÈ›i într-o r?scoal?; rareori pe un nenorocit, chiar dac? ar fi fost criminal, l-au insultat oamenii care asistau la condamnarea lui la moarte.

one man may insult fifty—it is the privilege of weakness.

D'Artagnan took every smile for an insult, and every look as a provocation

Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don't insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance politics. So I like them; but don't let me hear a word about the rest

Also there were people going round in such clumsy ways, stopping and starting, and hordes of schoolchildren like the ones I used to keep in order. Why so many of them and so idiotic with their yelps and yells and the redundancy, the sheer un-necessity of their existence, Everywhere an insult in your face. As the shops and their signs were an insult, and the noise of the cars with their stops and starts. Everywhere the proclaiming, this is life. As if we needed, more of life.

You have less honour than a piece of shit.

You scoundrel, you have wronged me, hissed the philosopher, May you live forever!

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend.

You're a fine one to talk, Skinny Rikke. Every pinch o' meat fell off you when you went to see the witch. You're like a head stuck on a spear these days, but without the flies. Most o' the flies, at least." And she burst out laughing.

And he paddled away in his douche canoe.

Suck my twinkie,asshole.

I'll be a candle right up your ass, you don't keep waddling, fat boy

Sorry I disagree,' she said while initialing some papers, having already acquired the mogul's knack of compounding an insult by multitasking while delivering it.

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.

He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.