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The chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.
— William Goldman
The hypocrite takes good advice as an insult.
— Nouman Ali Khan
Oh." Timmie gave Bones a shy peek. "Are you Cathy's brother?""Whatever would give you the idea that I'm her damn brother?" Bones snapped. — Jeaniene Frost
We live now in a world where any insult is treated like being shot at by a .38 at four feet.
— Kris Saknussemm
He'd left a new nightmare behind him, like an infection in a sore - the insult after the injury.
— Stephenie Meyer
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
— Benjamin Franklin
Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen
— George R R Martin
If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.
— Frederick William Robertson
Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play thefool no where but in's own house. — William Shakespeare
The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.
— George R R Martin
Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himselfUpon thy wicked dam — William Shakespeare
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
— D.H. Lawrence
DARE TO COMPAREIf you're without imperfection, hurl the first insult at a challenged person
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali
Accustomed to John Reed's abuse, I never had an idea of replying to it; my care was how to endure the blow which would certainly follow the insult.
— Charlotte Bronte
She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
— Joan Rivers
His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Me? I'm being ridiculous? You're the one flirting for your thesis. What the hell kind of degree is that anyway? A doctorate of dick tease?
— Erin McCarthy
Congratulations, Mousey, you've managed to insult every marsupial in the country in just under three kilometers.
— Elle Lothlorien
Never speak ill of the dead, insult his kin instead.
— Brian Spellman
The truth has become an insult.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
— Ferdinand Mount
Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current.
— Hunter S. Thompson
To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.
— Richard Engel
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
— Seneca The Younger
Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you're at it? (Julian)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
She's so ugly, the tide wouldn't take her out.
— Martin Kaye
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
— James Thurber
How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.
— Iris Murdoch
It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.
— Eliza Bisbee Duffey
- Where is Polonius?- In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the other place yourself. — William Shakespeare
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.
— Neville Chamberlain
And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
— Alexander Pope
For a minister's daughter," he said, "you hit hard ... and quite often, below the belt too.
— Essie Summers
Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.
— Mary Renault
You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Plus there was the standard French insult of ignoring your French and answering in English.
— Glen Duncan
President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.
— Mario Diaz-Balart
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
— Aristophanes
Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.
— Brandon Sanderson
Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?
— Mahatma Gandhi
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
— Nancy Cartwright
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
— Kara Swisher
She strode across the moors as if distance was a personal insult.
— Terry Pratchett
Puta, really, that's the best insult you got? I've been called the Whore of Babylon on national TV; puta just doesn't quite cut it.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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.
— Samuel Johnson
Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.
— Frank Zappa
Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.
— Peggy Kopman-Owens
You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.
— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
— James Randolph Adams
Sometimes we still need people who insult us, because they are the greatest motivation in our life.
— Fildzah
To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence.
— Flannery O'Connor
Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.
— Orson Scott Card
You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith,
— Pope Francis
It's amazing how insults in most languages sound the same.
— Paul The Apostle
The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.
— John Quincy Adams
Insult is a monstrous scorpion, and compliment is a likeable nightingale; one stings mercilessly, and the other sings sweetly.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.
— Harold Holzer
Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.
— Patricia Richardson
Begging in the Name of Jesus is an insult to His Name. Use His Name as a king, with boldness!
— Chris Oyakhilome
You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
— John Green
I think the biggest insult, the worst way you can offend a Mexican, is to insult their mother. A mother is the most sacred thing in life.
— Emiliano Salinas
Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.
— Anjem Choudary
If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.
— Tyler Knott Gregson
The book of Proverbs makes the same point: Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him. (14.31)
— Marcus J. Borg
