Insult Quotes

• Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Integrity

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

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• If you speak insults you will hear them also.

  Plautus

  Insults You, Speak, Ifs

  "Pseudolus". Act IV. 7. 77,

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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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• When you are insulted by someone or humiliated, guard against angry thoughts, lest they arouse a feeling of irritation, and so cut you off from love and place you in the realm of hatred. You should know that you have been greatly benefited when you have suffered deeply because of some insult or indignity; for by means of the indignity self-esteem has been driven out of you.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Self Esteem, Mean

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• Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?

  Russell Lynes

  Sarcastic, Wise, Stupid

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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 someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

  Steve Pavlina

  Accepting, Decline, Offers

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• The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Silence, Comeback

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• Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Stupid, People

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• Never insult anyone by accident.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Comeback, Accidents

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

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Funny, Life

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• Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Insult To Injury, Comeback, Argument

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Toadstools, Vulgar

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

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Life, Sarcastic, Wisdom

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• I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.

  Russell Lynes

  Sarcastic, Wise, Insults You

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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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• 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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• Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Sarcastic, Loneliness

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• When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Smart, Dirty, Frustration

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

  Pierre Corneille

  Insulted Him, Insolence, Deserve

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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