Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Hillary Clinton

You don't insult American Muslims and religiously profile them the way that has been suggested by Ted Cruz.

Hillary Clinton

The way Donald Trump talks about terrorism and his very insulting language towards Muslims is making him the recruiting sergeant for ISIS.

Grover Norquist

Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.

Groucho Marx

Do you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you?

Gena Showalter

And please, don't take offense. It's not an insult if it's true. - Devyn

Jean Cocteau

He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

Cassandra Clare

With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname.

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.

The old courthouse is a dog. In fact, that's an insult to a dog,

Sparky Anderson

They're loyal Royal all the way. But, they're not tough fans, a player does not have to worry about being insulted there.

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

This is an insult to Hong Kong people.

Janeane Garofalo

When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'

Carly Fiorina

Donald Trump you're never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency.

Haim Ginott

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

Jay Sekulow

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

I am not trying to titillate, make a statement or insult someone's values by presenting those shows.

Bob Johnson

How ironic that Sam Johnson has just returned from a visit to Hanoi yet insults the memory for the man who go him out of the there.

Michael Learned

I don't mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, it's pretty straightforward. If you say, 'I love you,' you mean 'I love you.' There isn't time for anything more.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Oscar Wilde

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Preston Brooks

Whatever insults my state insults me,

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.

Nick Rhodes

Intelligence can't be insulted.

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.

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Margaret Halsey

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