Quotes About Insult

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

Ricky Hatton ain't nothing but a fat man. I'm going to punch him in his beer belly when I see him.

To say someone is a vision is to pay them a great compliment. If you say that they look a sight it is a grave insult.

How thankful I am for Matthew 5:11: "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you.

To say "we" and mean "I" is one of the most recondite insults.

And when I was told insultingly to cease 'my girlish tears,' that word 'girlish' had no sting for me, except as a verbal echo to the one eternal thought of my heart - that a girl was the sweetest thing I, in my short life, had known - that a girl it was who had crowned the earth with beauty, and had opened to my thirst fountains of pure celestial love, from which, in this world, I was to drink no more.

In a letter to Sebastian... My brother is preoccupied with affairs of state and all the more suitable of his friends are unavailable at present, which only leaves you... Seb winced. The minx. She knew how to deliver a neat insult.

Jake eyed his brother. I never forget. All data is stored in my memory banks. And one day, candy pig, you will pay. You 're such a geek. Thesbo. That's Jack's latest insult. Seth gestured with his wine-glass. A play on thespian, since Kev's into that. Rhymes with lesbo, Jake explained helpfully while Anna stifled a groan. It's a slick way of calling him a girl.

Son, always answer back when you receive an insult. Do it straight away. Even if there's a chance there was nothing behind it, take back control, answer them back. An insult is an attack. You must counter.

Posing girl, you are so Godawful ugly. Did you let an elephant sit on your face or what?

I could just call you Asshole or Shithead. Because you're kinda both, you ask me.

I had one word for him, and it started with an ass and ended in hole.

The most painful part of beatings is the insult which they imply.

not about cruelty or pain, but about the insult connected with it. That

there are moments when indignation can rouse even a seemingly hardened prisoner-indignation not about cruelty or pain, but about the insult connected with it.

hay momentos en que la indignación puede surgir incluso en un prisionero aparentemente endurecido, indignación no causada por la crueldad o el dolor, sino por el insulto al que va unido.

a leering, sneering obscene little harpy...

To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

I noticed with a spasm of fierce disgust that the former Counselor of the Tsar, after thoroughly easing his bladder, had not flushed the toilet. That solemn pool of alien urine with a soggy, tawny cigarette butt disintegrating in it struck me as a crowning insult, and I wildly looked around for a weapon.

She showed a fierce insatiable curiosity for my past. She desired me to resuscitate all my loves so that she might make me insult them, and trample upon them, and revoke them apostately and totally, thus destroying my past.

Please! … You can't just walk away and leave me in this shithole!?" Gideon paused next to Lucan. "hold up. Did he just insult my work?" Fangs bared, he swung around and stalked back in front of the gleaming bars. "Fuck you, calling this a shithole. This entire cell is a bloody technological work of art, you ignorant wanker.

I guess you're referring to Chime Melody?' Froghorn wrinkled his nose, evidently surprised that she was aware of the Chime situation. 'Oh, I'm sorry, no insult intended,' he said, not the merest hint of apology in his voice. Apparently, you're a listener?' 'Sure, I listen,' said Ruby. 'It's important to have an open mind, otherwise one walks around like one knows it all when one is actually a total potato head, no insult intended.

A mad killer or anything, darling. If you're going to insult our neighbor, let's use proper grammar to do so." Brody