Insult Quotes

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

Peace, War, Powerful

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

Hurt, Second, Wants

Never insult anyone by accident.
Robert A. Heinlein

Anyone, Accident

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

Said, Won, Suggesting

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

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud

Human, Stone, Founder

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Stephen Fry

Experience, Once, Creation

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

Men, Rather, Means

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov

Nature, Someone, Human

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Music, Both, Dinner

Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

Beautiful, Woman, Ugly

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

Laugh, Ignore, Off

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Lord Chesterfield

Nothing, Forgive, Less

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

Forgotten, Injury, Sooner

They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.
Don Rickles

Hurt, Fun, Here

Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.
Olivia Munn

End, Trying, Afraid

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
Edward Abbey

Government, Country, Poor

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.
Terry Pratchett

Best, Rather, Against

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

Life, Love, Women

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

Person, Thought, Acts

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. Abrams

Pride, Point, Weird

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Walter Lippmann

Nature, Good, Opinion

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

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
Charles de Secondat

Loved, Longer, Misfortune

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.
James Wolcott

Politics, Reality, Words

If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.
Hulk Hogan

Fake, Show, Used

There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.
James Buchan

Ignorance, Cannot, Away

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

Here, Whole, Film

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
Rowan Atkinson

Problem, Point, Criticism

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