Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Juvenal

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

Tom Waits

Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.

Demetri Martin

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

Asghar Farhadi

I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

Amy Poehler

If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.

Perhaps the taxpayers should also take it as personally insulting when they are being sold out.

Oscar Wilde

Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.

Chris Howard

Never insult a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes, that way when you insult him, your a mile away and you've got his shoes.

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.

E. W. Howe

Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.

Aneurin Bevan

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

Andre Maurois

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

Anthony Holden

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

Cleveland Amory

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

Michael Winner

I think it's rather an insult to dogs. Men are awful: arrogant, nasty creatures.

Dasha Zhukova

If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.

John Grant

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

It is an insult to the person who has always opposed these non-vegetarian things.

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.

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

Patrick O'Brian

In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.

Michael Hoffman

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

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.

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.

Epictetus

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.

Johannes Brahms

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

Elbert Hubbard

Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can insult you without your permission.