Insult Quotes - Page 21

• I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Men, Infamy, Withstanding

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• The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see.

  Richie Benaud

  Keys, Economy, Cricket

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• Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.

  Susan Estrich

  Sports, Fun, Animal

  Susan Estrich (2016). “Love of Country: Discovering confidence in humanity, law and politics”, p.20, Creators Publishing

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• Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

  Samuel Richardson

  Depressing, Lying, Pride

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• Even Donald Trump's hairpiece is fed up with his insults and says it now supports Bernie Sanders. When Trump found out, he sobbed

  Michael R. Burch

  Support, Trump, Found

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• I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

  E. M. Forster

  Shields, Room With A View, Protected

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.488, Delphi Classics

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• There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Two, Sense Of Humor, Trouble

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.335, Penguin

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• Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Thumbs, Romeo Juliet

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. [50]

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• He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914) "The Feast of Nemesis"

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• I don't mind sharing the blame if she'll just admit she started it.

  Matt Groening

  Mind, Blame, Ifs

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• How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?

  Matt Groening

  Trying, Bed, Breakfast

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• I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.

  Matt Groening

  Pain, Causes, Figures

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• Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.

  Neil Gaiman

  Perfectly Good, Teeth, Arseholes

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• You take care and I hope I'll run into you - when I'm driving.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Running, Care, Driving

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• She has a wash and wear bridal gown.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Gowns

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• When a husband says, "I run things in my home" he may mean the washing machine, the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner.

  Sam Ewing

  Running, Husband, Home

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• If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not it is right to fight. Nor do we have any notion of honor. An insult to a bear is a deadly thing. To us...inconceivable. How could you insult a witch? What would it matter if you did?

  Philip Pullman

  War, Fighting, Giving

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Loss, Men, Mad

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• It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.

  Anne Rice

  Nature, Blessed, Night

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.257, Ballantine Books

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• I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Engagement, Owing

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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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• I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

  Jules Renard

  Self, Bored

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• If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Kindness, Cutting, Clouds

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette”, p.475, The Floating Press

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• How do you know that, Philo, dear?" But Philologos had had enough of being condescended to. "Because, Lamion, I am not as dumb as you think I am, even if you are." By the time Lamion had parsed this to make sure that there was in fact an insult at the end of it, Hilarion had laid a restraining hand on his arm.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Thinking, Hands, Dumb

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• I'm dying and all I hear are insults!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Dying, Peanuts

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