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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cassandra Clare

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

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.

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.

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.

Jay Sekulow

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

Hillary Clinton

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

Rachel Caine

Maybe you're not his type." Michael said "Oh, now you're just being insulting.

Larry McMurtry

Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.

Margaret Halsey

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

And such remarks, wherever they come from, are insulting and offensive to all of us.

Stephenie Meyer

You’ve got to have a little more confidence in us than that. It’s insulting.

Robert H. Schuller

Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

Thomas Carlyle

Thirty millions, mostly fools.

Rudyard Kipling

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth