Insult Quotes - Page 17

• The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.

  Mary C. Ames

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Consideration

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• The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.

  Arthur Helps

  Drama, Passion, People

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.94

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• Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs concerning the processes of understanding, learning, and thinking, among other things. One of the difficulties has been that such theory as has been developed has been based primarily upon studies of behavior of rats and pigeons. As someone has said, some of the theory thus developed has been an insult even to the rat.

  J. P. Guilford

  Thinking, Should Have, Practice

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• An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

  Don Rickles

  Fun, People, Titles

  Source: adambulger.blogspot.com

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• I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do the broads come on?" I got good at saying, "Relax. Clear your skin up first." They called me "the insult guy," but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, Talking, Guy

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• Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Names, Calling

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “The Role of Women”

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• The risk of insult is the price of clarity.

  Roy H. Williams

  Risk, Clarity

  Roy H. Williams (2012). “The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires”, p.10, BookBaby

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• If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down; but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be extremely civil to him in your outward behaviour, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Revenge, Men, Return

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.485

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• Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fear, Coward, Danger

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• Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining in silent for millions of years somewhere outside our universe!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Children, Believe, Mean

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• You don't take insults. You leave them with the insulter.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Insults You

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• (I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the world works or it's because you think France's self-interest is more important than America's. If the former applies to you, read a book. If it's the latter, maybe you should move there along with Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, and the rest of the crowd who promised to leave a long time ago. But whatever you do, don't call France's position principled, because that just insults us both.

  Jonah Goldberg

  War, Integrity, Moving

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• Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

  Mason Cooley

  Flattery, Contempt

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• How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Law, Progress

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

  Cass McCombs

  Differences, Advice, Make Out

  "Cass McCombs: Cagey singer-songwriter coughs up a few words". Interview with Delfin Vigil, www.sfgate.com. November 22, 2007.

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• Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Buddhist, Philosopher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.270

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• Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

  Mason Cooley

  Stories, Literature, Modern

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• No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Women, Religion, Degradation

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1919). “The Tunnel”

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• Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor.

  Tom Tomorrow

  Powerful, Mean, Names

  Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2001.

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• There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Believe, Heaven, Sorrow

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Contraceptives, Womanhood

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Through Self-control”

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• "What's the latest dope on Wall Street?" "My son!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Wall, Humor

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• Was that suit made to order? Where were you at the time?

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Order

  Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

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• A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. There are no more books to be written, thank God. This then? This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty . . . what you will.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Book, Character

  Henry Miller, Mary V. Dearborn (2007). “Crazy Cock”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

  Charles Buxton

  Men, Injury, He Man

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.210

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