Insulting Quotes

• Life is too short to learn German

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, German Language, Germany

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• It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

  Epictetus

  Life, Philosophical, Insults You

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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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• Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

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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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• It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.

  Alan Cohen

  Truth, Pain, Entrepreneur

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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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• The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

  Kresley Cole

  Respect, Hurt, Essentials

  Kresley Cole (2012). “Lothaire”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Growing Up, Insults You

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• Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.

  Robert Greene

  Pride, Worry, People

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.140, Profile Books

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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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• When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

  Andre Maurois

  May, Used

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• The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

  Giovannino Guareschi

  Writing, Men, Offending

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• When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God.

  Sophia Bush

  Hate, Cutting, Thinking

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• Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, People, World

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Lazy, Tasks

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• Being bored is an insult to oneself.

  Jules Renard

  Funny, Humorous, Self

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.62, Tin House Books

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• The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases and ignores male victims.

  Laura Bates

  Responsibility, Men, Ideas

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• The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Humility, Race

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.424, Univ of California Press

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• Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.

  Rick Warren

  Stupid, Racism, Different

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 17, 2013

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• You're such a big BABY. So cry me a river, build yourself a bridge, and GET OVER IT

  Rachel Renée Russell

  Baby, Bridges, Rivers

  Rachel Renée Russell (2010). “Dork Diaries 2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Use It Or Lose It, Quotations, Use

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• You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

  Ivan van Sertima

  Native American, Discovery, People

  Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, John Henrik Clarke “Dr. Ivan Van Sertima- 8 DVD video lectures: 8 DVDs, Best viewed on wifi on phones or tablets. iPads or Android (use google Play Book app to view. Gmail account required)”, Clemson Brown

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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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• Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.

  Wayne Dyer

  Emotional, Control Someone, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 07, 2011

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