Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

William Wordsworth

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

Robert Purvis

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

Rudyard Kipling

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

Jose Ortega y Gasset

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

Nick Rhodes

Intelligence can't be insulted.

Portia de Rossi

She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.

Pierre Corneille

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.]

Rachel Caine

Maybe you're not his type." Michael said "Oh, now you're just being insulting.

Pope Francis

You cannot insult the faith of others.

Josephine Baker

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!

Lord Chesterfield

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Gail Carriger

She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappropriate future moment.

Johannes Brahms

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

This is a done deal. Let's not insult anybody's integrity or intelligence. It's a done deal.

This illustrates why workers are insulted by their take-away contract. Our members generated that profit he's being rewarded for.

There wasn't much talent. I don't want to insult anybody, but it's true.

Al Alvarez

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

Kim Gandy

an outrage and an insult to the women of this country.

The myth about Muslim tolerance needs to be exploded, Behead those who insult Islam.

Juvenal

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

Demetri Martin

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

Artie Lange

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

Bruce Lee

If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can insult you without your permission.

Michael Hoffman

This newspaper is completely and totally objective and unbiased. I don't want to dignify their insults with comments.

Robert H. Schuller

Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

Tariq Ramadan

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

Thomas Carlyle

Thirty millions, mostly fools.

Stephenie Meyer

You’ve got to have a little more confidence in us than that. It’s insulting.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What are you doing here?! (Aimee) Come to inadvertently insult you some more apparently. Who knew? (Fang)

Margaret Halsey

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.