Insults Quotes

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

William Shakespeare

"Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to."

Janet Fitch

"Hey, look—your girlfriend is saying something."Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl?"

Eoin Colfer

"Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence."

Jasper Fforde

"Peter to Austin:"Hard-ons don't make you think less. They make you think stupid. Which makes me think you must have one 24/7."

Dani Alexander

"I’d heard you were dead.”"I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about."

Patrick Rothfuss

"The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect."

Kresley Cole

"Whatever negative things people think and say about you is enough to bring you down provided you belief that it carries a weight that can push you hard. Don't agree to accept what critics say; be prepared to silence them by doing what they think you can't do!"

Israelmore Ayivor

"Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about."

Winston Churchill

"After a year of therapy my psychiatrist said to me "Maybe life isn't for everyone.""

Larry Brown

"The only way she could get a standing ovation would be if she sang "The Star-Spangled Banner.""

Elmer Pasta

"His voice is to entertainment what the kazoo is to classical music."

Anonymous

"You look lousy,' he said. Jace blinked. 'Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.''No I mean it. You don't look good.''This is from a guy ho has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look, I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-' 'I am not trying to insult you.' Simon snapped."

Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

"You weren't afraid of me when I was Wolf," he said. "Why are you afraid of Nathan?""He's got big feet!""What?"An insulted-sounding arrroooo came from the other side of the door, a reminder that Wolves also had big ears."

Anne Bishop, Written in Red

"When what you are insulted by meets what you have a strong desire to do, then that would bring you significance."

Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort."

Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

"You must be determined to overcome the insults of the ungodliness of this world with the weapon of the light inside of you."

Sunday Adelaja

"I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner."He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it."

Jenny Trout, Ashes to Ashes

"When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity."

Michael Bassey Johnson

"Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young."

Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

"He leaned in for a sniff. 'Smells like a horse's arse! I've got Ian!' -'No sniffing allowed! We never discussed sniffing! I cry foul!' Ian was outraged. 'I'm not giving you a shilling!' -'Give him a shilling! It's not his fault you smell like a horse's arse!"

Julie Anne Long, What I Did For a Duke

"...weak of spine and flaccid of upper lip."

Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

"What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now.You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.”Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up."

Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism

"[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight."

Christine de Pizan, Le Débat Sur Le Roman De La Rose

"There seems to be a direct correlation between the spike in suicides by young people and the increase in cyberbullying amongst young people."

Germany Kent

"He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, something visceral and volcanic occurred within him. He wasn't sure what this might mean--except perhaps that he had got life and art mixed up, back to front, upside down."

Julian Barnes

"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

"YOUNG MORTIMER:Thou proud disturber of thy country's peace,Corrupter of thy king, cause of these broils,Base flatterer, yield! and were it not for shame,Shame and dishonour to a soldier's name,Upon my weapon's point here should'st thou fall,And welter in thy gore.LANCASTER:Monster of men!That, like the Greekish strumpet, train'd to armsAnd bloody wars so many valiant knights;Look for no other fortune, wretch, than death!King Edward is not here to buckler thee."

Christopher Marlowe, Edward II

"How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!"

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."

William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

"Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]"

Samuel Johnson

"Hmmm,' the King said, making a face. 'I'm not sure this is what we bargained for, boy. We expected the girl to be attractive.' If I hadn't been so terrified, I would have been insulted."

Danielle L. Jensen, Stolen Songbird

"He crouched at the care window and looked in. "What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that one." His finger jabbed the glass. "That one's a bit ugly."The American stepped towards him. "What? What did you say?""Oh, don't worry. I'm sure his personality makes up for his face."

Derek Landy, Death Bringer

"What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.” Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up."

Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism

"As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men have yet to master disagreeing without flashing all their frustrations that come with it; the conservative will throw half-truths while the liberal will throw insults. Combine these and what do you get? A dishonest mockery of a country."

Criss Jami, Healology

"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."

Joyce Rachelle

"He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn."

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

"Avoid the use of abusive words in communications that may switch off the attention of your mentor and your customers away."

Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

"Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly."

Michael Bassey Johnson

"Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you."

Israelmore Ayivor

"Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues."

Michael Bassey Johnson

"No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools."

Michael Bassey Johnson

"Keep away from people who always try to stop you from sharing your opinions with the entire world. Don't listen to people who mock you because you talked about who you want to be! Exposed yourself!"

Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

"Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues. If the words from the mouth of an abusive man makes you angry, quit the whole arena and you'll discover he had got his mouth shut."

Michael Bassey Johnson

"Talking with the mouth of a beast won't ease your pain."

Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

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