Insult Quotes - Page 36

• Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Moving On, Perseverance

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.150, Pan Macmillan

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• Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Your Soul

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.39

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• You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Trying, Purpose, Should

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2007). “The Harlequin: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.191, Penguin

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• Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning

  Si Robertson

  Lightning, Beard, Thunder

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• It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.

  Alan Cohen

  Truth, Pain, Entrepreneur

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• One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith.

  Pope Francis

  Fun, People, Provoking

  "Pope Francis says there are limits to freedom of expression". The Pope’s Press Conference on Flight from Sri Lanka to the Philippines, en.radiovaticana.va. January 15, 2015.

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• He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

  Gore Vidal

  Kansas, Prejudice, Housewife

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• The hypocrite takes good advice as an insult.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Hypocrite, Advice, Good Advice

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• I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

  Edmond Rostand

  Cutting, Men, Ideas

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• We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  God, Thinking, Records

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Acheron”, p.336, Hachette UK

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• It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument - their intellect - which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

  Galen Strawson

  Atheist, Believe, Taken

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• Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.

  Primo Levi

  Skeletons, Civilization, Stories

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Daenerys, Targaryens

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1928, Bantam

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• Being bored is an insult to oneself.

  Jules Renard

  Funny, Humorous, Self

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.62, Tin House Books

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• A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he quietly endures the insult or responds with great humility, he weakens the serpent and lessens its hold. But if he replies acrimoniously or brazenly, he gives it strength to pour its venom into his heart and to feed mercilessly on his guts. In this way the serpent becomes increasingly powerful; it destroys his soul's strength and his attempts to set himself right, compelling him to live for sin and to be completely dead to righteousness.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Powerful, Freedom, Heart

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• [He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Crazy

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Honesty, Gay, Insults You

  Late Night with Conan O'Brien, November 21, 2008.

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• Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.

  Candace Bushnell

  Karma, Punishment, Risk

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• The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Humility, Race

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.424, Univ of California Press

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• Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

  Mark Twain

  Epic, Drawing, Silence

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• You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

  John Green

  Life, Romantic, Special

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.156, Penguin UK

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• In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?

  Sebastian Junger

  Self, Risk, Way

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• If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

  Bill Russell

  Integrity, Insults You, People

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• He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

  Paulo Coelho

  Doe, Path

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• Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.

  Herman Melville

  Tyrants, Slave, Masters

  Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.276, Northwestern University Press

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