A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass

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 K. Chesterton

Adding "just kidding" doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Lord Chesterfield

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.
Ben Harper

Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.
Toni Morrison

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.
Robert Purvis

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.
Sydney Schanberg

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
Josephine Baker

I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.
Calvin Klein

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.
Kevyn Aucoin

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Edmond de Goncourt

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
Tanith Lee

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.
Sydney Schanberg

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
Russell Lynes

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
Suzanne Fields