Insult To Injury Quotes

• Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Comeback, Argument, Insulted

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• Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Sad, Broken Heart

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.

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• Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Writing, Dust

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• An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Trust, Domestic Violence, Comeback

  Letters to His Son, 9 Oct. 1746

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• 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

  People, Forgiving, Bears

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.87, OUP Oxford

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

  Lawrence Durrell

  Age, Aging, Comeback

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• The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.

  Demetri Martin

  Add, Casts, Signing

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, www.imdb.com. January 14, 2007.

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• A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

  Jon Stewart

  Expression, Jokes, Knows

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• To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Liberty, Taxes Funny

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

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• I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water—and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury.

  Richelle Mead

  Water, Pieces, Rats

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.287, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• In the last generation we've moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship. As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States. To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.

  Alan Bersin

  War, Past, Friendly

  Source: www.salon.com

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• 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

  Judging, Soil, Plot

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• For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.

  Suzan Shown Harjo

  Native American, Thinking, Names

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• The sight of a sullen teenager is common no matter where you go. Teenagers want things so powerfully and can never seen to get them, and to add insult to injury, people make light of your feelings because you are a teenager. They say time will mend a broken heart and they're often right. But not where my feelings for Hardy were concerned.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Teenager, Heart, Light

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.56, St. Martin's Press

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• It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.

  Upton Sinclair

  Apology, Thinking, Rights

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