Insult Quotes - Page 5

Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

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

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

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

Don't say yes until I finish talking.

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

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

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the gods, he is not dealing with persons but with ideas. He is incapable of insulting God, for he does not admit the existence of any such being... We attack not a person but a belief, not a binge but an idea, not a fact but a fancy.

There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims.

It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

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.

Thirty millions, mostly fools.