Insult Quotes - Page 28

• I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Mines

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.229, Macmillan

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• There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in society has been very accurate or healthy. I don't think we've come up with ways to tell it that don't insult people or hit them in the wrong way. Part of the problem is that most people don't really understand what slavery was anyway. Most white people didn't own slaves. Slavery was a way of life, just like driving cars is a way of life now. It doesn't mean that it was right.

  James McBride

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Who controls the images? Ultimately, we don't control the images. This is the minimum we're allowed to ask for: we don't get to control most of the media. We fight to have some say in the ways we're represented. At the bare minimum, don't insult us in person. That's all we ask! Let us at least be able to function freely in the world.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Fighting, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And please, don't take offense. It's not an insult if it's true. - Devyn

  Gena Showalter

  Please, Offense, Ifs

  Gena Showalter (2009). “Seduce the Darkness”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Offending, People, Nerd

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.33, Random House

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• The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Loss, Sarcasm, Mind

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• My mother, unlike yours, never exchanged sexual favors for a piece of silver," he said, addressing the first insult by banging the boy's head against the trunk of the tree. "And," he said with another resounding thump, "although I'm very familiar with that part of the female body, I take offense at being labeled one.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Boys, Tree

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.69, Penguin UK

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• Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Flattery, Imitation

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture”

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• When I visited North Korea in November 2014, is that Kim Jong-un is not merely the head of state of the DPRK - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea - he's also their deity. So, when you insult him as the head of state, you're also insulting the deity, which of course the regime plays to a fare-thee-well to the domestic audience there.

  James R. Clapper

  Insulting, November, Democratic

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The way the Democrats try to dispirit everybody and impugn people is basically insult their intelligence. If you're not Democrat, if you're not liberal, you're an idiot. You're kook. Something's wrong with you.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Trying, Idiot

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What’s that poem again?” Will, who had been twirling his empty teacup around his fingers, stood up straight and declaimed: “Each spake words of high disdain, And insult to his heart’s best brother—” “Oh, by the Angel, Will, do be quiet,” said Charlotte, standing up. “I must go and write a letter to Aloysius Starkweather that drips remorse and pleading. I don’t need you distracting me.” And, gathering up her skirts, she hurried from the room. “No appreciation for the arts,” Will murmured, setting his teacup down.

  Cassandra Clare

  Appreciation, Brother, Art

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

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• Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.

  Clare B. Dunkle

  Thinking, Killing, Absurd

  Clare B. Dunkle (2006). “The Hollow Kingdom: Book I -- The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy”, p.161, Macmillan

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• Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?

  Tamora Pierce

  Girl, Boys, Stereotype

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “In the Hand of the Goddess”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• His hands are off," Gabrielle pointed out. "Posture's wrong," Kat said. "He's still ... hot," Gabrielle said, as if it were the greatest insult in the world. "I feel so objectified. So ... cheap," Hale told them.

  Ally Carter

  Hands, Hot, World

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Easy climb, Kurokuma. You do it easily.' 'Not on your life,' Horace said... 'That's what we have Rangers for. They climb up sheer rock walls and crawl along narrow, slippery ledges. I'm a trained warrior, and I'm far to valuable to risk such shenanigans.' 'We're not valuable?' Will said, feigning insult. Horace looked at him. 'We've got two of you. We can always afford to lose one,' he said firmly.

  John Flanagan

  Wall, Warrior, Rocks

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• Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!

  Georgette Heyer

  Girl, Swallowing, Corinthians

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “The Nonesuch”, p.285, Random House

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• Booyah, I will summon the ninja. Oh, and take a lunch break while we burgle." "You're going, too?" "Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?" "No, I was just thinking you're a little, uh, recognizable, maybe?" Eve batted her thick eyelashes. "Why, thank you, sweetie. That's the nicest insult I've had today, not counting the jock who said he'd date me but he had a restraining order out for necrophelia.

  Rachel Caine

  Thinking, Eyelashes, Order

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Bite Club”, p.19, Allison & Busby

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• Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

  Margaret Atwood

  Revenge, Civilization, Debt

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• Wit is educated insolence.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Witty, Humorous

  Aristotle (1909). “The Rhetoric of Aristotle: A Translation”

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• You've been checking me out, haven't you? In between your flaming insults? I feel like man candy.

  J. Lynn

  Men, Feels, Candy

  J. Lynn (2013). “The Between the Covers New Adult 6-Book Boxed Set: Wait for You, Losing It, Taking Chances, A Little Too Far, Rule, and Foreplay”, p.65, Harper Collins

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• I used to be an insult comic, and I didn't end up liking the way that I felt about myself.

  Zach Anner

  Way, Comic, Used

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: "Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each other kindly, and live simple generous lives?

  Orson Scott Card

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Animal

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• You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

  Pope Francis

  Fun, Provoking

  "Pope Francis says there are limits to freedom of expression". Press conference on the plane to the Philippines, en.radiovaticana.va. January 15, 2015.

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• When I worked with Chevy Chase, Michael Ritchie would say, "Just ad lib and try to break me up. Just insult me. Anything." When we were doing his close-up, or when my back was to the camera, I would come up with jokes or quips or anything, to get a real reaction out of him. He was smart enough to know that was gold. So it was great fun working with him and Michael, and getting to see how the two worked together. I think Fletch and Clark Griswold were Chevy's two best roles. He's so incredibly talented and still vastly underused.

  Tim Matheson

  Fun, Real, Smart

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

  J. J. Abrams

  Kids, Pride, Way

  "JJ Abrams: 'I called Spielberg and he said yes'" by Katie Puckrik, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2011.

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