Insulting Quotes - Page 10

• I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting - spreading rumors, disturbing the peace.

  Bassem Youssef

  Islam, Rumor, President

  "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• My general approach to writing fiction is that you try to have as few conceptual notions as possible and you just respond to the energy that the story is making rather than having a big over plan. I think if you have a big over plan, the danger is that you might just take your plan and then you bore everybody. I always joke that it's like going on a date with index cards. You know, at 7:30 p.m. I should ask about her mother. You keep all the control to yourself but you are kind of insulting to the other person.

  George Saunders

  Mother, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's always more interesting when you're doing things with someone you like because you're much more open to suggesting things. Also, it's fun. It's like if you're sitting with your mates and you're bantering, or you're winding each other up and insulting each other in a playful way, but having fun with it.

  Joseph Morgan

  Fun, Interesting, Sitting

  Source: collider.com

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• What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are being obstructionist for wanting to see documents, for wanting to see a paper trail, for wanting to get questions answered in the judiciary committee hearings, and now all of a sudden, the Republicans want those things for this.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Paper, Want

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very insulting to black Dutch people. It's shocking to me that it still exists, but I think it's about the lack of knowledge and education regarding the roots of the character in the slave trade.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Character, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Horse, War, Italian

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• Our largest companies should not be able to get away with paying hardly anything at all. It is insulting when they engage in these games like moving their headquarters over to a foreign country, on paper, not in reality, just to take advantage of lower tax breaks.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Moving, Reality

  Source: time.com

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• I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say "old."

  Baron Vaughn

  Diagnosis, Shoulders

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I say that now we see a lot of hateful rhetoric against Mexicans and the Latino community, but we have a very powerful weapon. And that is our vote. This is the way we can get even with all of the politicians who are insulting us and saying terrible things about our community - by voting them out. And get the good ones. Vote them in.

  Dolores Huerta

  Powerful, Voting, Community

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• Really annoys me any time I see Asian fusion too. Asia is a big place; which Asian are you talking about? You notice it's never Uzbek or Tajik food. It's Thai, and it's generally insulting.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Talking, Fusion, Asian

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Donald Trump's insulting comments about women go hand in hand with his plans to defund Planned Parenthood and appoint Supreme Court justices who will end legal abortion.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hands, Justice, Abortion

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• Somebody saying something offensive to you, or insulting to you, is not pleasant, but it's part of life. And my belief is we need to shore ourselves up, and our kids up and our younger generation up to understand how to deal with that unpleasant reality, because we won't always be there to protect them. And you know, I for one want my own kids to know how to handle that.

  Megyn Kelly

  Kids, Reality, Generations

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

  David Frost

  Class, Definitions, England

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• Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.

  Jim Butcher

  Cousin, One Day, Bob

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.392, Penguin

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• It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

  Alfred Douglas

  Pay, England, Revolutionary

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• All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.

  W. C. Fields

  Swallowing, Plums, England

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• 'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the perfect satisfaction of both parties, if they are worthy the name of Englishman.

  Joseph Furphy

  Party, Expression, Play

  Joseph Furphy (2016). “Such is Life”, p.342, Joseph Furphy

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• It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Daily Tasks, England, Undressing

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• From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

  Heinrich Heine

  Boredom, England, Kind

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• England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Running, Racist, Ugly

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• England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.

  Colin MacInnes

  Football, Baby, Sweet

  "Out of the way: later essays".

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• The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.

  Julien Offray de La Mettrie

  Meat, Red, England

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• Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Sex, Water Bottles

  How to Be an Alien (1946)

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• A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde had lived into his nineties, instead of dying in his forties, he would have been considered a benign, distinguished figure suitable to preside at a school prize-giving or to instruct and exhort scout masters at their jamborees. He might even have been knighted.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  School, Mean, Simple

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.40, Regent College Publishing

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• The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.

  Arthur Murray

  People, England, Ruined

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