Insult Quotes - Page 31

• To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

  Mark Twain

  Country, Religious, War

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.392, Univ of California Press

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• Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Profound, Being Free, Belief

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• The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Thinking, People

  "This much I know" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2008.

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• He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases!
  [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage
  Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]

  Pierre Corneille

  Increase, Outrage, Insolence

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• When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

  Eli Roth

  People, Direct, I Can

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• With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Imperfection, Unbearable

  Saint Vincent De Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: August 1646-March 1650”

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• I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting?

  Dora Russell

  Sex, Fighting, Men

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• Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for
  you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

  Vernon Howard

  Men, Air, Liberty

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• I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to be told I had transcended my gender would be considered a compliment. I didn't know — yet — that black was compulsory. All of that was in the future. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

  Margaret Atwood

  Simple, Black, Would Be

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

  Jaron Lanier

  Tests, Earning, Economy

  Jaron Lanier (2013). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.

  LouAnne Johnson

  Writing, Rejection, Risk

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• Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Law, Poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.338, Рипол Классик

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• Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.

  Henry Fielding

  Support, Vices, Virtue

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• Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you see people turning to the law to regulate everyday behavior. This frightens me; it's a major inroad on our basic freedoms.

  Judith Martin

  Irritation, Law, People

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• It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.

  Clifford Stoll

  Flames, Hobbies, Acrimony

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• I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

  Edmund Burke

  Age, Looks, Gone

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.149

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• I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Yelling, Done

  "Community's Gillian Jacobs on Walk of Shame, Playing the Sassy Girl, and Working With Elizabeth Banks". Interview with Megan Angelo, www.glamour.com. April 30, 2014.

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• So, the thing we’re all not talking about,” he says. He gestures to me. “You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you, and now we’re all waging some serious war with the factionless as allies.” “Pansycake?” says Christina. “Dauntless slang.” Lynn smirks. “Supposed to be a huge insult, only no one uses it anymore.” “Because it’s so offensive,” says Uriah, nodding. “No. Because it’s so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?” “And a half,” he says.

  Veronica Roth

  War, Stupid, Thinking

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• From talk radio to insult radio wasn't really that much of a leap.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Media, Radio, Leap

  Leonore Fleischer (1991). “The Fisher King”, New Amer Library

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• I'm not sure why we want each other," she grumbled. "Nor am I, but the fact remains that we do want each other." "Maybe I'm just shallow. You're quite pretty." "For now, that will do." Infuriating man. Couldn't take an insult the way she intended. -Annabelle and Zacharel

  Gena Showalter

  Men, Want, Way

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• The person who conveys, 'I am nothing. Make me something,' may all his life have people trying to answer his hidden plea, but their answer will be in terms of, 'I am trying to make you something because you are nothing,' and, thus, the insult will be embedded in the response. It will be heard just as clearly as the attempt to help. And it will be hated.

  Jo Coudert

  People, Trying, Answers

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.134, iUniverse

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• How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

  Iris Murdoch

  Happiness, Innocent, Triumphant

  Iris Murdoch (2008). “A Word Child”, p.7, Random House

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• When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.

  John Green

  People, Miracle, Nerd

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• You're screening your calls?" "Why not? It saves me from conversations with idiots." "Is that an insult?" His voice dropped into a deep growl. "You're not an idiot," I told him. "You're just a deadly psychopath with a god complex.(...)

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Why Not, Idiot

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.102, Penguin

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• The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.

  Demetri Martin

  Insult To Injury, Add, Casts

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, www.imdb.com. January 14, 2007.

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