Insulting Quotes - Page 2

• No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

  Paul Gallico

  Inspirational, Rude, Abuse

  The New York Times, January 14, 1962.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Education is power, it changes your whole life, it can create a life for yourself. So the more educated you are, the more you learn about what you care about, you become a more caring person. And if you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. And you may even change their mind, or they may change yours.

  Amy Poehler

  Caring, Mind, Care

  8 Copy quote

• The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay

  Goronwy Rees

  Germany, East, Delay

  9 Copy quote

• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  53 Copy quote

• When Donald Trump is in trouble, he starts yelling, he starts screaming. He starts insulting. He starts cursing.

  Ted Cruz

  Yelling, Trouble, Cursing

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the Prophets of Allah.

  Anjem Choudary

  Expression, Doe, Prophet

  "Radical imam Anjem Choudary on Charlie Hebdo attack". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 8, 2015.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  41 Copy quote

• God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less. If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Prayer, Impossible

  Mark Batterson (2011). “Be a Circle Maker: The Solution to 10,000 Problems”, p.6, Zondervan

  48 Copy quote

  Show source

• The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

  Paul Valery

  People, Evil, Vices

  7 Copy quote

• How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beer, Germany, Heaviness

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.

  John Podhoretz

  Spiritual, Jobs, President

  "The real trouble with Rick" by John Podhoretz, nypost.com. February 21, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Land, Giving

  7 Copy quote

• It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

  Epictetus

  Views, Giving, Abuse

  9 Copy quote

• I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Thinking, Challenges, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

  Mark Sheppard

  Teacher, Jesus, Plato

  17 Copy quote

• Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Mother, Truth, Freedom

  "Liu Xiaobo: 'No Enemies, No Hatred,' Only Courage". Statement prepared for court, www.npr.org. February 16, 2012.

  144 Copy quote

  Show source

• Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Insults You, Brain

  15 Copy quote

• Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

  Liam Gallagher

  Oasis, Discipline, Superhero

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• How would you like to feel the way she looks?

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Looks, Way

  "Fictional character: Otis B. Driftwood". "A Night at the Opera", www.imdb.com. 1935.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Being Yourself, Insults You

  15 Copy quote

• Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Thinking, Self

  6 Copy quote

• I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

  Benjamin Watson

  Painful Experiences, Racism, Insensitive

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.15, NavPress

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth.

  Charles Luckman

  America, Space, Teeth

  57 Copy quote

• My brother and I both like sarcastic, insulting comedy, so that's a way we communicate. Somehow that's what we learned. My mom is not a really sarcastic person. She's a really sort of overly loving person, and my brother and I came out little cynical bastards.

  Moshe Kasher

  Mom, Sarcastic, Brother

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mirrors, Pyramids, Would Be

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Pyramids: A Novel of Discworld”, p.5, Harper Collins

  47 Copy quote

  Show source