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Quotes About Insult

Because he's three thousand times the human being you'll ever be,' said Alec. 'Now get out of here before I risk his life by waking him up so he can turn you into a garbage fire. Something that would match your personality.' 'Oh!', said Zara. 'So rude!
~ Cassandra Clare
I think I like 'mundane' better than 'bloodsucker,'" Simon muttered. "With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname." -Simon and Clary, pg.234-
~ Cassandra Clare
You look lousy,"Simon said. Jace blinked."Seems an odd time to start an insult contest,but if you insist,I could probably think up something good
~ Cassandra Clare
You can put any kind of judgment you want on the way you feel, but that won't make it go away. Unfortunately you can't insult your feelings out of existence. Trust me. People try all the time. If it worked, we'd know about it by now.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
To this very day, I wonder why, when a man wants to insult another man, he calls him a woman or a girl. Now that I'm grown, I notice that these are guys with wives and girlfriends and daughters. Don't they see what they're saying?
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Het dooreen mengen van een zorgvuldig toebereide maaltijd geldt als een belediging van degene, die hem heeft gekookt [...]
~ Gerard Reve
A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Plus there was the standard French insult of ignoring your French and answering in English.
~ Glen Duncan
In marriage, insult arises again and again; and pain has to be not only endured, but consented to; and the amount of forgiveness that it necessitates is incredible and exhausting.
~ Glenway Wescott
Sir Brian told him in fulsome scatological terms what he could do with his lineage.
~ Gordon R. Dickson
That's common sense Joe! And your tiny mind is not common!
~ Gordon Ramsay
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and malice, "human" might be the greater insult.
~ Isaac Asimov
Now then!" cried Vita Palas. "Don't you go slanging me, you raddled old hussy! I know your kind, all skin and spleen, and wrinkles to wrap over all! Your own morals are sewage, you with your dancing-boys and gigolos! Don't you try slanging me any more, or I'll snatch off your wig and really explain what I think of you! It will not be nice! It will turn your long nose blue!
~ Jack Vance
What happens when you stop gossiping? You have more time (gossiping consumes a lot of time). You have more friends. You have no risk of insulting the people who you otherwise would have insulted. And you gradually move ahead in the ranks of everyone who succumbed the shortcomings of gossip.
~ James Altucher
When a man's pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult.
~ James Clavell
You've made a wise choice, lad...I won't insult your intelligence with the word 'trust'.
~ James Ellroy
If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.
~ Mike Huckabee
President Trump understands that President Putin does not like to be insulted. Putin takes it very personally. He harbors a grudge. He doesn't forget. And he will find some way of getting some degree of revenge as a result of that.
~ Fiona Hill
You have sent me a Flanders mare.
~ Henry VIII of England
You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, and that's not saying much for you
~ Groucho Marx
My point is simply this: I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, as long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen.
~ Stephen Baldwin
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
~ Vernon Howard
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
~ Aristophanes
I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.
~ Charles Buxton