Insult Quotes - Page 3

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

  Russell Lynes

  Sarcastic, Wise, Insults You

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• A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

  Louis Nizer

  Clever, Comeback, Thousand

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• A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Hurt

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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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• I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Believe, Insults You, People

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• How would you like to feel the way she looks?

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Insulting, Looks

  "Fictional character: Otis B. Driftwood". "A Night at the Opera", www.imdb.com. 1935.

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• I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Cute, Sarcastic

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• I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high.

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Old You, Knows

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• The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Views

  "Rowan Atkinson: we must be allowed to insult each other". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2012.

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• There but for the grace of God, goes God.

  Winston Churchill

  Sarcastic, Grace, Sleazes

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Mother, Truth, Freedom

  "Liu Xiaobo: 'No Enemies, No Hatred,' Only Courage". Statement prepared for court, www.npr.org. February 16, 2012.

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• I wouldn't be surprised if one day Carl's halo slipped and choked him.

  Carl Lewis

  One Day, Halos, Ifs

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• Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission.

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, People, Pay

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• It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.

  Aime Martin

  Challenges, Way, Clear

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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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• It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Calumny Is, Insulted

  "De Ira". Book by Seneca the Younger, II. 32, 45 AD.

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• 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.

  George Washington

  Peace, Money, Powerful

  George Washington (1837). “Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.38

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• Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Sight, Insults You

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.363, BookCaps Study Guides

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• What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Resentment, Neglect

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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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• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion

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• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Fashion

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Grief, Compassion, Mind

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Insult To Injury, Comeback, Argument

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