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Insult To Injury Quotes

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

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Insult To Injury, Comeback, Argument

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

Benjamin Tucker
Men, Insult To Injury, Liberty
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Lord Chesterfield
Trust, Insult To Injury, Domestic Violence
Letters to His Son, 9 Oct. 1746

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Lord Chesterfield
Insult To Injury, People, Forgiving
Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.87, OUP Oxford

It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.

Upton Sinclair
Apology, Thinking, Insult To Injury

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Lawrence Durrell
Insult To Injury, Age, Aging

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

Demetri Martin
Insult To Injury, Add, Casts
"Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, www.imdb.com. January 14, 2007.

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

Robert Purvis
Insult To Injury, Judging, Soil

I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water—and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury.

Richelle Mead
Insult To Injury, Water, Pieces
Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.287, Kensington Publishing Corp.

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

Jon Stewart
Expression, Insult To Injury, Jokes

In the last generation we've moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship. As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States. To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.

Alan Bersin
War, Past, Insult To Injury
Source: www.salon.com

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