Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cassandra Clare

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

A TV can insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer.

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.

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.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

Larry McMurtry

Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.

Josephine Baker

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

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.

You can't really insult us anymore. It is an Olympic sport.

Jesse Eisenberg

No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

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.

William Wordsworth

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

W. C. Fields

All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.