Insult Quotes - Page 4

• I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Believe, Insults You, Comeback

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

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Insults You, Insulting

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

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  In Leo Rosten People I have Loved, Known or Admired (1970) "Groucho"

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• If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

  Russell Lynes

  Laughing, Comeback, Ifs

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

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Being Yourself, Insults You

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• A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

  Frederick Douglass

  Motivational, Men, Gentleman

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• The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Silence, Comeback

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• A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

  Moliere

  Wise, Patience, Wisdom

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• If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

  Johannes Brahms

  Insulted Him, Leaving, Pardon

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• Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

  Oscar Wilde

  Popularity

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.416, Wordsworth Editions

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• A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.

  John Holmes

  Dog, Silly, Race

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• The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Men, Class

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• Only cowards insult dying majesty.

  Aesop

  Dying, Coward, Majesty

  Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”

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• He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears every hardship, reproach and insult nobly, never thinking the least evil of anyone.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Heart, Thinking

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• Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Toadstools, Vulgar

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• He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

  Pierre Corneille

  Insulted Him, Insolence, Deserve

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• There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honour, which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Men

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, Booklassic

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• If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.

  Bruce Lee

  Ass, Ifs

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.88, Tuttle Publishing

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• Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Life, Sarcastic, Wisdom

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• Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

  Bryan Burrough

  Pride, People, Internet

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Funny, Life

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• An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Trust, Insult To Injury, Domestic Violence

  Letters to His Son, 9 Oct. 1746

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• The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Anger, Civilization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Positivity, Rest Of Your Life, Humans

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