Insult Quotes - Page 37

• 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

  Tattoo, Artist, Mind

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

  Herman Melville

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  'Moby Dick' (1851) ch. 17

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• The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Men, Insulted Him

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.67, First Avenue Editions

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• During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us, and then strive to train our heart to bear and forgive these things patiently, in imitation of our Saviour. This is the way to acquire a strong spirit.

  Philip Neri

  Forgiveness, Strong, Prayer

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• I married beneath me. All women do.

  Nancy Astor

  Marriage, Women, Divorce

  Quoted in Dictionary of National Biography 1961 - 1970 (1981)

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• Goat face is a horrible insult. My face is practically perfect in every way. In fact, from now on I demand to be called Beautiful Bryan.

  Daniel Bryan

  Beautiful, Perfect, Demand

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2012

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• This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Stupid, Hate, Crazy

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• When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it's an invitation.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Gay, Hateful

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• I don't like what you`re doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today

  Tariq Ramadan

  Who I Am, Insults You, May

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• I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

  Josephine Baker

  Insults You, Paris, Comeback

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• In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and threats, all of which are propped up by the repeated narrative now that women are 'playing the gender card'. And this is the final insult. That of all the unfair things associated with women - the violence and insults, the financial oppression, the very undermining of our worth as human beings - it is the acknowledgement of these inequalities that gives us some kind of unfair advantage over the men who benefit from them.

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Giving, Benefits

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• Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kindness, Blow, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1588, Library of Alexandria

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• Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!

  William Kamkwamba

  Today, Poor, My Future

  William Kamkwamba (2010). “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”, p.41, HarperCollins UK

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• The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Attitude, Love Is, Soul

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• Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Pockets, Want

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• By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations to petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An author cannot obtrude his service unasked, nor can be often suspected of any malignant intention to insult his readers with his knowledge or his wit. Yet so prevalent is the habit of comparing ourselves with others, while they remain within the reach of our passions, that books are seldom read with complete impartiality, but by those from whom the writer is placed at such a distance that his life or death is indifferent.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Book, Passion

  "The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius".

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• The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Opposites, Bhajans

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• There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.

  Alexei Panshin

  People, Disrespect, Way

  Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket

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• The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.

  Joao Magueijo

  Games, Humans, Human Intelligence

  João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

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• I hate to see a guy who insults a girl or is bad with her. Immediately I think she would be better if she was with me.

  Niall Horan

  Girl, Hate, Thinking

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• You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service--it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.18, Penguin

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• Sometimes questions can be more cruel than insults.

  Jenny Han

  Sometimes

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• Advertising isnt just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.

  Jan Koum

  Team, Writing, Engineering

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• Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? You can't win an argument, because if you lose, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. Why? You will feel fine. But what about him? You have made him feel inferior, you hurt his pride, insult his intelligence, his judgment, and his self-respect, and he'll resent your triumph. That will make him strike back, but it will never make him want to change his mind. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.

  Dale Carnegie

  Change, Hurt, Pride

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• That is why, as one who values the U.S.-Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech — saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Commitment, Love Is, Israel

  "Pelosi: Netanyahu speech 'insulting to the intelligence of the United States'" by Lauren French, www.politico.com. March 3, 2015.

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