Insult Quotes - Page 4

They call me a right-winger, which is an insult - I'm simply a racist and a separatist.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

It's always more interesting when you're doing things with someone you like because you're much more open to suggesting things. Also, it's fun. It's like if you're sitting with your mates and you're bantering, or you're winding each other up and insulting each other in a playful way, but having fun with it.

Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.

It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down.

Somebody saying something offensive to you, or insulting to you, is not pleasant, but it's part of life. And my belief is we need to shore ourselves up, and our kids up and our younger generation up to understand how to deal with that unpleasant reality, because we won't always be there to protect them. And you know, I for one want my own kids to know how to handle that.

Donald [Trump], you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. That's not going to happen.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

I may not have the type of voice you like, but I can sing. You can’t take that away from me, ‘cause singing is a gift from God, and when people say I can’t sing, it’s kind of like insulting God.

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

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.

... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.

Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

Hi. I haven't insulted you yet, have I?

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

If you lend someone 20 dollars and never see that person again, it's probably worth it.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.