Insult Quotes - Page 7

• Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.

  Ernest Belfort Bax

  Country, Mean, Class

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• The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature and its songs, and they are deeply invested in how children are treated, because the children are the ones who will keep it going. The idea that each of us has the right to change everything is a deep insult to them.

  Robert Bly

  Song, Children, Ideas

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• Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay the infinitely possible? Out there ... lay six billion ears, all the people in the world available for contact and mystery and insult, unable to resist the beckoning of one small and villainous forefinger.

  Alan Coren

  Simple, Discovery, People

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.126, Canongate Books

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• [Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself against the social injustices which insult God the Creator, seeks to protect human beings from oppression and longs to liberate them… it protests against every authoritarian regime, whether of the left or of the right, which discriminates against minorities, denies people their civil rights, forbids the free expression of opinions or imprisons people for their views alone.

  John Stott

  Christian, Rights, Views

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• I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.' 'Station! Station!-- your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Heart, Insults You

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.216, Penguin

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• I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water—and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury.

  Richelle Mead

  Insult To Injury, Water, Pieces

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.287, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.

  John Dewey

  Progress, Lapses, Evolution

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.181, University of Illinois Press

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• Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Revenge, Men, Injury

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.215

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• A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

  Samuel Johnson

  Letters, Bows, Opinion

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772”, p.196, Princeton University Press

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• She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Gun, Talking

  "Clinton courts working classes with protectionist stance" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2008.

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• Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry a weapon, you're telling them, 'I'll defend you as if you were my own family.' And anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible: 'I don't trust you unless you're rendered harmless'!

  L. Neil Smith

  Home, Gun, House

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.121, Macmillan

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• Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

  Umberto Eco

  Moron, Thinker, Great Thinkers

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense of self isn't that firmly established in the first place. It's an inside job. You're beautiful and worthy and totally unique. People insult each other based on their own insecurities - even though it may feel personal, it really never is. Really. Seriously.

  Emma Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Beautiful

  "The Really Amazing Spider-Man 2 Star Emma Stone On Tuning Out The Haters And Owning Who You Are". Interview With Brittany Burke, www.seventeen.com. May 2, 2014.

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• When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

  Samuel Hoffenstein

  Love, Lonely, Bored

  Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”

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• He's a male chauvinistic piglet.

  Betty Friedan

  Piglet, Males

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• He called you pretty...That's practically an insult, the way you look right now...You're much more than beautiful.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Twilight, Looks

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• I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.

  Ilona Andrews

  Giving, Talent

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• Oh, Daja," moaned Jory, "you sound just like my parents." She ran from the schoolroom. "Well, there's no reason to insult me, "muttered Daja, half offended.

  Tamora Pierce

  Parent, Sound, Half

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• Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people.

  Simone Elkeles

  Food, Thinking, People

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “Rules of Attraction”, p.166, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Eye, World

  Joyce Carol Oates (1990). “I Lock My Door Upon Myself”, New York : Ecco Press

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• Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's only a little shoulder wound. Goddess, George-don't die on me." His eyes flickered open and he smiled. "I didn't know you cared," he whispered. "And why insult me? I won't die for a wee nick like this; I've had worse in my day." Alanna wiped her wet cheeks. "Of course I care, you unprincipled pickpocket!" she whispered. "Of course I care.

  Tamora Pierce

  Eye, Care, Littles

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “In the Hand of the Goddess”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Insults You, Necks

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.216, Penguin

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• Chauncey seethed at the outrageous insult. "And your father?" he demanded, extending the sword. He didn't yet know all his vassals, but he was learning. He would brand the family name of this boy to memory.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Memories, Father, Boys

  Kate Brian, Jessica Verday, Richard Yancey, Scott Westerfeld, Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “All Good Things Come to an End: Free Teen eSampler”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Koga:"You got a problem with that muttface?" Inuyasha: Did you just call me a mutt?" Koga:"No, you're right. That would be an insult to canines.

  Rumiko Takahashi

  Mutts, Would Be, Problem

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• I love insult, it's always honest.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Honest

  Joyce Carol Oates (2003). “Beasts”, p.15, Da Capo Press

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