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Quotes About Insult

Obviously, we prefer to be praised rather than insulted and still more when a woman we love deceives us, what would we not give that it should be otherwise. But the resentment of the affront, the pain of the abandonment would in that event have been worlds we should never have known, the discovery of which, painful as it may be for the man, is precious for the artist. In spite of himself and of themselves, the mischievous and the ungrateful must figure in his work.
~ Marcel Proust
Oh! The story-teller! Oh! The flatterer! Oh! The false one! The cunning rogue! Oh! Molière!" (This was the only writer's name that she knew, but she applied it to me, meaning thereby a person who was capable both of writing plays and of acting them.) "Céleste!" came the imperious cry from Marie, who, not knowing the name of Molière, was afraid that it might be some fresh insult.
~ Marcel Proust
Some of us seem to accept the fatalist position, the fatalist attitude, that God accorded to us a certain position and condition, and therefore there is no need trying to be otherwise. The moment you accept such an attitude, the moment you accept such an opinion, the moment you harbor such an idea, you hurl an insult at the great God who created you, because you question Him for His love, you question Him for His mercy.
~ Marcus Garvey
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
~ Margaret Cho
Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter!
~ Margaret Weis
The fat man, taken by surprise, was very hurt. "Search me, Missus." "I might if I had the time. Her bright eyes, small and dark as his own, took in his great bulk with wicked amusement. "What are you carrying about with you? The dome of St Paul's?" "Ho! Who's talking, eh?" As the insult went home he forgot all caution. "Margot Fonteyn of the Convent Garden I suppose.
~ Margery Allingham
And [she] proceeded to insult ... anyone she happened to remember at the moment, with such power and originality that the soldiers listened in wonder to vituperation that transcended their wildest dream of profanity and filth.
~ Mariano Azuela
Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.
~ Artur Schnabel
Flea brain, got a hole in her head. If she wasn't good looking, she'd be better off dead.
~ Gene Vincent
If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
~ Don Rickles
You're not funny and nobody likes you!
~ CM Punk
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
~ Sparky Anderson
Pizza with pineapple, that's a cake... Pizza with cucumber, it's an insult.
~ Unknown
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
~ Winston Churchill
pointless spunktrumpet.
~ Mark Billingham
Referring to another crim he knew. "Tiger...I used to tell him he should use some of his money on plastic surgery and a face lift because he is dog ugly. He had a head like a robber's dog.
~ Unknown
Totalitarian propaganda can outrageously insult common sense only where common sense has lost its validity.
~ Mark R. Levin
You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.
~ Henny Youngman
I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.
~ Christopher Paolini, Brisingr
I knew a girl so ugly, she had a face like a saint-a Saint Bernard!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.
~ Dylan Moran
Now go back to Supercuts and get your $5 back jabroni!
~ Dwayne Johnson
The insane little dwarf, Bush.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
He treats me like the dirt under my feet.
~ Samuel Goldwyn