Insult Quotes

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. (Sigmund Freud)
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. View quote
Steven Weinberg
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. View quote
George Washington
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. View quote
Montesquieu
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. View quote
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. View quote
Toni Morrison
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. (Edmond de Goncourt)
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything. She wants all the information you can give her. View quote
David Ogilvy
Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. View quote
Cordell Hull
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. View quote
Frederick Douglass
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said. View quote
William F. Buckley
Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult. View quote
Mario Puzo
She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.) View quote
Ned Vizzini
Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity. (Kathy Reichs)
I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is. View quote
Kevyn Aucoin
If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists. View quote
Sydney Schanberg
I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things. View quote
Sydney Schanberg
People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them. View quote
Winona Ryder