Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
James Randolph Adams

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

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
Cordell Hull

Never insult anyone by accident.
Robert A. Heinlein

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

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Lawrence Durrell

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
Junius

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.
Winona Ryder

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
David Herbert Lawrence

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

Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back.
Dominique Swain

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

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.
Paul Prudhomme

The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.
Hideki Tojo

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

The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.
Caroline Nichols Churchill

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

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Patricia Meyer Spacks

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
John B. S. Haldane

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