Insult Quotes - page 2

An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult. (Frederick Rolfe)
THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
There is nothing so small but that we may honour God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands. View quote
John Ruskin
It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. View quote
Harper Lee
It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word-on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray. (64). View quote
Epictetus
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. View quote
Henry Miller
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: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain. View quote
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. View quote
Stephen Fry
If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult. View quote
Maya Angelou
Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult. View quote
Orson Scott Card
There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself. (Dinah Craik)
The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence. View quote
João Magueijo
Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: "Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being." Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept. View quote
Sam Harris
Envy is an insult to oneself. View quote
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone. View quote
John Calvin
I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble. View quote
John Wayne
Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. View quote
Aristophanes
Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe. View quote
William Somervile
I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or behave disrespectfully towards Islam or Mohammed. (Anders Fogh Rasmussen)
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them. View quote
Rachel Maddow
No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs - and certainly not Islam. View quote
Richard Stallman
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity. View quote
E. F. Schumacher