Taunting Quotes

• A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

  Louis Nizer

  Clever, Comeback, Insult

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• He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.

  Ryan Giggs

  Inspirational, School, Player

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• Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

  Dan Rather

  Wisdom, Creeks, Alligators

  "Sign-off" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. March 07, 2005.

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• Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

  Fighting, Gestures, Littles

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.

  Johnny Vegas

  Confidence, Children, Hands

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• Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk

  Christopher Moore

  Loneliness, Broken, Life Is

  Christopher Moore (2010). “Fool”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

  Edward Carpenter

  Men, Crowds, Firsts

  "My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes".

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• When you are surrounded by four people, one of them smiling, taunting, demanding, terrorizing, you don't have a complete grasp or perfect vision.

  Bernhard Goetz

  People, Perfect, Vision

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• Fear cannot touch me…
  It can only taunt me,
  It cannot take me,
  Just tell me where to go…
  I can either follow,
  Or stay in my bed…
  I can hold on
  To the things that I know…
  The dead stay dead,
  They cannot walk.
  The shadows are darkness.
  And darkness cannot talk

  Christopher Rice

  Fear, Darkness, Shadow

  Christopher Rice (2001). “A Density of Souls”, Miramax

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• Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Fun, Lying

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.232

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• What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.

  Kristen Stewart

  Fall, People, Faces

  "'Twilight's' Kristen Stewart Compares Fame to Being 'Raped': 'A Lot of the Time I Can't Handle It'". Elle magazine interview, www.nydailynews.com. June 01, 2010.

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• Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.

  Charles Fort

  Lying, Data, Mad

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• If the devil never roars, the Church will never sing! God is not doing much if the devil is not awake and busy. Depend upon it: a working Christ makes a raging devil! When you hear ill reports, cruel speeches, threats, taunts and the like, believe that the Lord is among His people and is working gloriously.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, People, Church

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.228, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames them. Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It's an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites.

  Ann Coulter

  Liars, Hypocrite, People

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.154, Crown Forum

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• The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three at a time in different ways to make all the heavy particles we knew. ... I needed a name for them and called them quarks, after the taunting cry of the gulls, "Three quarks for Muster mark," from Finnegan's Wake by the Irish writer James Joyce.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Science, Names, Nomenclature

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• Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.

  Saint Patrick

  Years, Laughing, Wish

  "The Confession". Translated by John Skinner, www.ccel.org.

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• Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.

  Georg Ebers

  Imagine, Old Woman, Hard

  Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria

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• Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I have sometimes wished that some clever man would actually have a baby in some new labor-saving way; then all men could take it up, and one of the oldest taunts in the world would be stilled forever.

  Robertson Davies

  Baby, Clever, Men

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• Right now I've got just two rules to live by. Rule one: don't taunt elephants. Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants. -Sergeant Schlock

  Howard Tayler

  Elephants, Two, Rules To Live By

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• I saw Donald [Trump] saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they were taunting American sailors who were on a nearby ship. He said, you know, if they taunted our sailors, I'd blow them out of the water and start another war. That's not good judgment.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Blow, Iran

  Source: time.com

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• Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Home, Imperfect World, Normal

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.9, 谷月社

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• I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

  Graham Chapman

  Mother, Father, Animal

  "Fictional character: Frenchman". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", 1975.

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• With so much protection, wouldn't one be able to wander among the undead ranks, taunting them at will with no danger of repercussion?

  Max Brooks

  Zombie, Able, Protection

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.59, Broadway Books

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• Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue.

  James A. Owen

  Discipline, Sticks, Tongue

  James A. Owen (2010). “Shadow Dragons”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Rain, Eye

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.335, Delacorte Press

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