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Quotes About Insult

You wretched black beetle!
~ Richard Adams
Sometimes, when people in the South tell you to have a blessed day, it means fuck you and I hope you have a nice time in hell.
~ Richard Grant
Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life, and that it's nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Tell me something, Gradual—back in Hellas, do they categorize the triads as organized crime?" I paused to let the insult sink in. "Because over here in the Gash, if someone inside the familias andinas was this fucking disorganized, they'd last about ten minutes.
~ Richard K. Morgan
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~ Richard K. Morgan
He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, something visceral and volcanic occurred within him. He wasn't sure what this might mean--except perhaps that he had got life and art mixed up, back to front, upside down.
~ Julian Barnes
I remember being called a pig. You do? You know good and well, I do. I was called a pig in two languages. You were? I was.
~ Julie Garwood
In his last impassioned speech, Stephen had claimed that the Temple was an insult to the nature of God: "The Most High does not live in a home that human hands have built.
~ Karen Armstrong
But aggression, righteous condemnation, and insult only make matters worse. Somehow we have to break the escalating cycle of attack and counterattack.
~ Karen Armstrong
Beth grimaced. "He is a pompous ass." "And in dire need of a wealthy wife. Perhaps you should find a twitch to go with your stutter." "I would fall upon the floor in a fit if I thought it might do some good. The man is a menace.
~ Karen Hawkins
It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?
~ Lady Hester Stanhope
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.
~ Samuel Richardson
Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
~ Alexander Pope
The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.
~ Charles Spurgeon
In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get...Is that because women are considered something less?
~ Andrej Pejic
You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
~ Jonathan Swift
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I have been despised by better men than you.
~ George R. R. Martin
"You're an old man who dresses like a Hooter's waitress."
~ Greg Giraldo
Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
~ Muhammad Ali
I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.
~ Rachael Ray