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Quotes About Insult

When Jefferson visited Adams in England in the spring of 1786, the two former revolutionaries were presented at court and George III ostentatiously turned his back on them both. Neither man ever forgot the insult or the friend standing next to him when it happened.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
I love insult, it's always honest.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
You are mad!" she snapped, her chest heaving. "And you are a devil!" "And you, my dear," Royce imperturbably replied, "are a bitch." With that, he turned to the horrified friar and unhesitatingly announced, "The lady and I wish to be wed.
~ Judith McNaught
You're an asshole, you know that? Stick your finger up your butt and take a whiff. That's you. A piece of shit!
~ Judy Blume
Gabriel flashed him the one-fingered Mudra of Contempt.
~ Walter Jon Williams
It is possible to insult Americans?" "They are automatically insulted and enraged," said the young composer. "They form splenetic organizations by the hundreds, and write letters to periodicals and congressmen. They gather in mobs and pay no attention. They hang people without trial and shoot citizens down with machine guns out of passing cars. They will despise you because you do not eat the same things they eat for breakfast. They even apply indifference.
~ Walter Van Tilburg Clark
I guess that the thing people say to me all the time is, "Were the leeches real?" They then turn to their frat guy friends and snicker, like they're the first person to ever say that to me. I wait for a second, so they think they've really cut me down, and I say, "Yeah. Ask your mom about my scar." Finding new and preferably disgusting ways to degrade a friend's mother is always held in high regard.
~ Wil Wheaton
Just like David, we become frustrated when others spread false accusations against us. Though they are not true, we are angry, confused, and hurt, in part because there is next to nothing we can do about it. Jesus both warned and comforted His disciples: "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me" (Matthew 5:11).
~ Darlene Zschech
Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!
~ Darren Shan
You're so stupid, Rose! - Jack Dawson
~ James Cameron
You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!
~ James Dashner
You're the shuckiest shuck-faced shuck there ever was.
~ James Dashner
You have a gift for making a compliment sound like an insult.
~ James Dashner
All of them, you slinthead shuck-faced piece of klunk." Minho smiled.
~ James Dashner
I'm gonna kill you, shuck-face!
~ James Dashner
You are one ugly shank.
~ James Dashner
you slinthead shuck-faced piece of klunk.
~ James Dashner
Pipe it, shuck-face,
~ James Dashner
The most potent stimulus of aggression and violence, and the one that is most reliable in eliciting this response, is not frustration per-se (as the "frustration-aggression" hypothesis had claimed), but rather, insult and humiliation. In other words, the most effective way, and often the only way, to provoke someone to become violent is to insult him.
~ James Gilligan
He's not so bad-looking," I said, and it was true: the conductor was tall and well made, with a strong jawline and heavy, masculine features. "Non, not so bad," said Bertrand, "but he is cruel. He call me names, he call my mother names, he insult my country—not even my country, but France, even though I try to explain—" "There's no point in trying to explain geography to that type.
~ James Lear
Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
~ James Randolph Adams
I swear this family's got shit for brains.
~ Dorothy Allison
I didn't mind thinking you were a murderer, said Lady Mary spitefully, but I do mind you being such an ass.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I know when I am well off. You had better come up to me.'     'You know I can't.'     'Of course you can't. You can only go down and down.'     'Are you trying to insult me?'     'Yes, but it's very difficult.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers