But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.
Helen Garner

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
J. M. Coetzee

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
Christopher Plummer

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
Judith Martin

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.
James Welch

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
Dustin Hoffman

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
Epictetus

It should come as no surprise to any of us that the solution to ending bickering in families is to talk to one another more often without blaming, making judgments, or insulting one another.
Donald C. Medeiros

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
Anthony Holden

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

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
James H. Meredith

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.
Jay Alan Sekulow

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
e. e. cummings

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.
Robert Scheer

When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'
Janeane Garofalo

Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.
Jason Schwartzman