Quotes About Insulting

Jobs could be charming to people he hated just as easily as he could be insulting to people he liked.

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To claim that ISIS is Islamic is egregiously inaccurate and empirically unsustainable, not to mention insulting to the 1.6 billion non-violent adherents of Islam across the planet.

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.

To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

If my parents aren't ignoring me, they're insulting me. I like being ignored better.

She threw in the last suggestion entirely in a sporting spirit. She loved battle, and she had a feeling that this one was going to finish far too quickly. To prolong it, she gave him this opening. There were a dozen ways in which he might answer, each more insulting than the last; and then, when he had finished, she could begin again. These little encounters, she held, sharpened the wits, stimulated the circulation, and kept one out in the open air. - The Romance of an Ugly Policeman

I consider jealousy to be insulting to you and degrading to me.

You're very patronizing," I pointed out. "Very clever of you to notice, girlie. Have a look at this.

You don't build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. You do it by putting in the slow, hard work of building relationships.

It's insulting when somebody who is not a member of our community feels like they have a great understanding of what it's like to grow up gay in this country.

I have said that he has the power to deliver a compliment and make it hurt. So, too, he can say something that ought to be insulting and deliver it in such a way that it feels like being truly seen.

It was a little insulting to admit that a drooling dolt like Coulter might be right about something, but after all, Isaac Newton didn't reject gravity just because the apple had a low IQ.

Pru, you have the depth of a puddle.

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

Oh. Is this, um, Harry Dresden? The, ah, wizard?" Her tone was apologetic, as though she were terribly afraid she would be insulting me. No, I thought. It's Harry Dresden the, ah, lizard. Harry the wizard is one door down.

You're such a pompous, arrogant, pretentious, chauvinistic, hopelessly old-fashioned, stupidly pigheaded

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.

You've got to have a little more confidence in us than that. It's insulting.

Maybe you're not his type. Michael said Oh, now you're just being insulting.

Just because it's the truth doesn't make it any less insulting.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.

Mary found Elizabeth's letter so insulting, she refused to reply at all.