Quotes about insult

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Those acidic insults being poured down on you are found in satan's gallons! Watch those who tackle you for you to fall down watch them closely. They are wearing the booths Satan invented! Don't attack the people attack the one who sponsors them!

Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus

To speak much is one thing to speak to the point another!

Christopher G. Nuttall - The Nelson Touch

...the ravenous monsters men called reporters sub-human vermin who feed off misery and created it wherever they went.

Anonymous - Holy Bible: King James Version

He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.

Israelmore Ayivor -

You may not be able to do anything about how you feel but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions...but you can choose to let that offence sink you down or not....

Bernie Taupin -

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Groucho Marx -

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Sherman Alexie - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.

Kami Garcia - Beautiful Creatures

You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.

Rick Riordan - The Battle of the Labyrinth

I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervous about?""Look," I said. "I'm sorry about the band room. I hope they didn't kick you our or anything.""Nah. They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb.""Was it hard?" Annabeth asked.

Cassandra Clare - City of Ashes

I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.

Brigham Young -

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

Sherrilyn Kenyon - Acheron

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

Charbel Tadros -

It is an insult to a wise person when his motives for guiding are questioned. However, he understands that people aren’t used to free gifts and still helps them anyway.

Epictetus - Enchiridion

If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on is way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?

Mae West -

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

Christopher Moore - Practical Demonkeeping

I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores.

Derek Landy - Death Bringer

I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.

Kim Stanley Robinson -

You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.

A.E. Kirk - Midnight Poison

Your wit never ceases to underwhelm me.

Jo Nesbø - The Leopard

You are Bellman, aren’t you? The genius who sent the sauna ape after me?” Harry nodded toward the Finn.

Tahereh Mafi - Ignite Me

Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable?

Gena Showalter - The Queen of Zombie Hearts

Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you.

William Shakespeare - Measure for Measure

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

Andrew Hinkinson - WOOF!

She was my friend because she was kind and funny but she had a face like two oysters fused together in a Star Trek matter transporter accident.

Dalia Sofer - The Septembers of Shiraz

And since when is stealing people's possessions the call of God? you are all hypocrites who have suddenly come into power, and you don't know how to handle it

Kathryn Lasky - The Siege

Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!

Brian Jacques - Mattimeo

I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig," Mangiz fumed."Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!!

Kate Quinn - Mistress of Rome

Lepida, has anyone ever told you that you're a cruel spiteful selfish slut?...You're vicious. You're unprincipled. You mistreat your slaves and abuse your daughter. And furthermore you're the worst, most neglectful, most criminal wife in Rome. I think we can go now.

Cuthbert Soup - Another Whole Nother Story

Captain Jibby looked at the door, clenched his teeth, and worked his face into a scowl so fierce you would think the door had insulted his mother - which, for the record, it had not.

Dalia Sofer - The Septembers of Shiraz

Since when are you so 'faithful'? just a couple of years ago you would show up in your tight jeans and borrow our car to pick up one of your five girlfriends. You think that beard makes you a man of God?

Bertrand R. Brinley - The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club

Hoh, Boy!" Freddy snorted, slapping his palm to his forehead. "I hope you never donate your brain to science. It would set civilization back fifty years.

Israelmore Ayivor -

Free your life from the fangs of gossips by not associating yourself with them. Anyone who helps you to gossip about someone can also help someone to gossip about you.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Keep your heart pure. Overlook an insult.

Cormac McCarthy -

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

Ron Baratono -

It's always the people who strive to find, and tell you about one of your imperfections, that want to feel one step above you. The truth is their ten steps below you with nothing better to say.

George Washington - The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799 Volume 39 (General Index O-Z

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken now! That he who says what others want to hear hasn't said anything of his own.

EverSkeptic -

Do u sometimes feel dumb or duffer are inadequate words to describe some people?How about DUMFER?

John Green - Paper Towns

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes.

Chirag Tulsiani -

The times might be unpleasant, repulsive. The ghastly chaos, the abhorrent uncivility might be intolerable, might force us into argument or leave us panic-stricken.On such occasions people build within themselves a conviction, that the world outside is diabolical. The whimsical insults test our level of endurance causing us to plead for mercy, wanting us to be pitied than exploited and victimized. Often this grief and shame form a delusion within us that there no longer exists good in this world

Edward Albee -

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge -

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

If you have experienced injustice and insulted by the ungodliness, then you are a candidate to stand against the same.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

The group of people that are insulting the society with ungodliness are those that are out rightly known with ungodliness and those that try to mimic godliness.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

Your anger against every form of insult and oppression must be out of love.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

When insulted by injustice, face it, stand up against it and demand your right and justice.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

Those who have been insulted by ungodliness and injustice could be in a good or better position to stand for or with those that are being insulted by the same.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

Your insult by the ungodliness and injustice in the land is a force.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

If lawmakers in nations today refused to be bribed and be corrupted by some larger-than-life leaders, the people will be less insulted and molested by ungodliness and injustice.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

Actually, everyone, in one way or the other is being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, be it racial injustice, inequality, economic injustice, and the spread and campaign of ungodliness sweeping the land.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

Whenever you are being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, endeavor to speak against it, endeavor to stand up against it, and expect to see change.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

Our passion, even our insult, could be turned into a blessing.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

People who don’t feel insulted by the ungodliness and injustice around them do not do anything about it.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

It is an insult to live in the fear of darkness.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

It is those that are insulted by injustice that will refuse to be silenced.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

A voice of one insulted by injustice will make others to be delivered from the same injustice.

Jacques Barzun - 1500 to the Present

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.

Sharon Page - Black Silk

So, sweeting, why were you threatening to throw Tate out of the house? What did he say?”Leather brushed her chin as he tipped it up. Serious dark eyes met hers. “What did he say?”She glanced around; surely the footmen were too far away to hear. “He wanted to join us in our bed.”“I’ll run him through.”“No! Perhaps he only said it to goad you into a duel. Perhaps it was intended as a way to kill you.”“It was an insult to you, love. That can’t be ignored.”“And so you rush inexorably toward death. I

Dada Bhagwan -

A person who has the slightest fear of insult cannot be called a “Gnani” [the enlightened one] and a person who desires self-recognition [maan] is not a Gnani [the enlightened one].

Dada Bhagwan -

One does not like insults yet ironically he is an expert in insulting others. How can this be called a human-behavior?

Dada Bhagwan -

A person with a large tuber of self-pride remains engrossed in the fear of, ‘Someone is going to insult me…someone is going to insult me’ or ‘From where can I get respect? From where can I get the respect?

Dada Bhagwan -

After getting respect, one will get an equal amount of insult, if not in this life then the next. If you taste even the slightest of pleasure from this body-complex [pudgal], you will have to pay back an equivalent amount. Therefore become attachment-free (vitarag).

Dada Bhagwan -

It is a tremendous strength to be able to digest an insult.

Dada Bhagwan -

How can you tell whether the ego is there or not? You will know when someone insults you. If someone insults you, swallow (accept) it with understanding.

Dada Bhagwan -

Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.

Dada Bhagwan -

He insulted me’ -this knowledge binds one with terrible demerit karma.

Dada Bhagwan -

Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted.

Dada Bhagwan -

In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end.

Dada Bhagwan -

If one man gets excessive maan (importance from others) higher than a certain point, he will get tired of it, and if he gets excessive insults higher than a certain point, he gets agitated.

Dada Bhagwan -

One will become shameless if he does not fear insults in the worldly life. And in nischay [determination in the spiritual life] if one does not fear being insulted, he becomes independent.

Dada Bhagwan -

One cannot have the same love for getting insulted (apmaan) as he does for getting importance (maan), can he? He cannot love loss as much as he loves profit, can he?

Dada Bhagwan -

Even if you insult him, he gives you his blessings; such a one only is the Gnani Purush [The enlightened one]!

Dada Bhagwan -

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

Pam Hillman - Stealing Jake

{She] ain’t got the sense God gave a goat.

Kambiz Shabankare -

Sometimes, in rare occasions, when I see a man respects a woman, treats her like another valuable human being, uses a proper language when talking to her and does not consider her only as a sex-toy. I feel proud of being a man. I feel grateful of belonging to a gender category as he is. However, the feeling is soon gone after seeing how men in general talk about women, disrespect them and insult them any way they can.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current.

William Shakespeare - Hamlet

- Where is Polonius?- In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the other place yourself.

William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon

His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality.

Robert Evans - A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization

History, as taught by schools, has white washed the drunkenness out of the past. It has minimized the influence of drugs on history's great thinkers, and covered up the impact of prostitution and insults on human development.

Amit Kalantri - Wealth of Words

Thinking before taking actions is useful only if you are going to take action, otherwise you are wasting time and insulting your mind.

Plato - The Republic

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear

What is a whore?"Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span of days. For half a moment I considered lying, but there was no way I could manage it. "He says your mother is a person men pay money to have sex with."Tempi turned back to the mercenary and nodded graciously. "You are very kind. I thank you.

Harper Lee -

...baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. So don't let Mrs Dubose get you down. She had enough troubles or her own.

Gena Showalter -

Sister?” Jessie Kay scowled. “Do I really look like his sister? I clearly come from grade-A stock while his ancestors made a few poor choices along the way.

Homer - The Iliad

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

Unarine Ramaru -

The biggest insult to any parent is a child that lives up to society standards and not his or her full potential.

Criss Jami -

As cliché as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating then begets more cheating, as he is ever-privately, ever-subconsciously insulting himself; thus, gradually deteriorating any remaining confidence.

Joyce Rachelle -

There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.

Erin McCarthy - Bit the Jackpot

Seamus: "I was wondering if you would like to go get some coffee"Cara: "Well that depends ... do you like to take long walks?"Seamus: "Yes"Cara: "Do you like sex?"Seamus: "Yeees"Cara: "Then take a f***ing hike and leave me the hell alone.

Unarine Ramaru -

Rap is supposed to motivate, humours, address societal issues & personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women.

Chris Hedges - Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve to be dominated and abused. And once men have had their way with them, these whores are to be discarded. Porn glorifies the cruelty and domination of sexual exploitation in the same way popular culture, as Jensen points out, glorifies the domination and cruelty of war. It is the same disease. It is the belief that “because I have the ability to use force and control to make others do as I please, I

Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear

I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?

Andrzej Sapkowski - Wieża Jaskółki

I've never understood why the majority of human curses and insults refer to the erotic sphere. Sex is wonderful and associated with beauty, joy and pleasure. How can the names of the sexual organs be used as a vulgar synonym for ̶

Andrew Levkoff - A Mixture of Madness

Some men simply refuse to appear insulted. But then, having felt the sting from the slap on their cheek, know just where to slip the knife, their smile never fading.

M.F. Moonzajer -

Humans are very strange. When you need a hug, they throw you away, when you need condolence , they insult you, and when you need love, they betray you.