Insulting Quotes - Page 3

• America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Gun, Two, Qualms About

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The English think soap is civilization.

  Heinrich von Treitschke

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Civilization

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• If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

  O. Henry

  New York, Ifs

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• The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

  Auberon Waugh

  Two Sides, Loathing, England

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• Thirty millions, mostly fools.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Humor, Fool

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• The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

  James Agate

  Travel, Home, Men

  James Agate (1951). “The Later Ego: Consisting of Ego 8 and Ego 9”

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• The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Political, Want, Fast Food

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Eagles, People, Dollars

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• I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Country, Two, Sauce

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• I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.

  Mike Piazza

  Gay, People, Way

  Mike Piazza (2014). “Long Shot”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Real, Humorous

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• Don't count your wrongs, count your blessings and you shall not fail. Any human who calls himself a creature of God and does not count, many times during the day, the blessings but only counts what he doesn't have is insulting to God and to himself; he is a living non-reality.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Blessing, Reality

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• The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological, if understandable. At one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Giving, Hatred

  "The State of the Union". Esquire Magazine, May 1975.

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• A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ocean, Pirate, Ruins

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.147

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• What the creeping crud is that?" [Percy] demanded. "You’re inside a giant glowing chicken-man!" "Hawk!" I yelled. I decided that if I survived this day I would have to make sure this guy never met Sadie. They’d probably take turns insulting me for the rest of eternity.

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Glowing, Guy

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• In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Democracy, Germany, England

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• America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Law, America

  "Marriage and Morals".

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• The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.

  Walt Whitman

  Race, Making Love

  Walt Whitman, William White (2007). “Daybooks and Notebooks, Volume III: Diary in Canada, Notebooks, Index”, p.752, NYU Press

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• I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the road, or in the field, at the theatre, the coffee-house, or at home, he had never overheard Americans conversing without the word DOLLAR being pronounced between them. Such unity of purpose ... can ... be found nowhere else, except... in an ant's nest.

  Frances Trollope

  Coffee, Home, America

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• Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

  Anthony Trollope

  New York, Two, Firsts

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “North America”, p.205, Applewood Books

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• Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

  A. J. Liebling

  Wine, Bottles, Lasts

  A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.6, North Point Press

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• They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spiders, Stones, Angry

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

  Jane Austen

  Character, Pride, Offending

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.127

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• The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.

  Karel Capek

  Average, Cooking, Teeth

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• Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing.

  Muriel Barbery

  Daughter, Gratitude, Men

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