Insult Quotes

• When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Smart, Dirty, Frustration

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• Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.

  John Smith

  Stupid, Men, Mind

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• To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.

  Clive Barker

  Would Be, Bowels, Products

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• Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking heart may bless, Find our mortal world enough; Noons of dryness find you fed By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass Watched by every human love.

  W. H. Auden

  Dream, Heart, Eye

  W. H. Auden, “Lullaby”

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• Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?

  Russell Lynes

  Sarcastic, Wise, Stupid

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• Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Integrity

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Animal, Humanity, Pet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

  Kresley Cole

  Respect, Hurt, Insulting

  Kresley Cole (2012). “Lothaire”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Envy is an insult to oneself.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Envy, Oneself

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• You're such a big BABY. So cry me a river, build yourself a bridge, and GET OVER IT

  Rachel Renée Russell

  Baby, Bridges, Rivers

  Rachel Renée Russell (2010). “Dork Diaries 2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Men, Vanity, Morality

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”

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• I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what that means when the story is set somewhere where more than one belief system is in operation. If all you do is pay lip service to it, you can get the kind of thing where the writer has thrown one Hindu god into a Christianist fantasy (rendering said god by default a demon or otherwise inferior to the dominant religious system of the story, which is such an insult), and the hero is able to vanquish it by chanting a spell in church Latin.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Christian, Religious, Latin

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• Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own.

  Russell Lynes

  Sarcastic, Wise, Mind

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• He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sarcastic, Work, Ignorance

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 4, ch. 5.

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• I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

  Aleister Crowley

  Education, Memories, Philosophical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Modesty, Presumption

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.91

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• Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.

  Aesop

  Animal, Lions, May

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• As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult and tyrannize over little people; this being the means which they use to recompense themselves for their extreme servility and condescension to their superiors; for nothing can be more reasonable than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them which they themselves pay to all above them.

  Henry Fielding

  Mean, People, Bird

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• Sure, I'd love to help you out...now, which way did you come in?

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Way, Helping

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• Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Ugly, Being Selfish

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• It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?

  Lady Hester Stanhope

  Taken, Men, Thinking

  Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time”, p.212

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• Her face was her chaperone.

  Rupert Hughes

  Sarcastic, Sex, Faces

  Rupert Hughes (1914). “The Last Rose of Summer”

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• Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

  Liam Gallagher

  Oasis, Discipline, Superhero

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Family, Beauty

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