Insult Quotes - Page 7

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

Whatever insults my state insults me.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

Insults are the business of the court.

Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.

No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.

Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.

I think you can be politically incorrect, but there's some responsibility with that. You've got to make sure that you are not condoning or bolstering any racial or other stereotypes. You've got to be free to make jokes, but just make sure...you don't want to go and black face somewhere to just prove a point. If it's insulting and offensive just for the sake of it that's problematic.

I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]

He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.

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

I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone.

When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.

You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.