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You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base! — Eileen Wilks

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

I've always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock. — Julie Kagawa

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

How is someone so smart so stupid? You can't make money if you always insult my customer. You got to be the worst hooker I ever had — Jason Brant

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

Why insult the door's purpose by locking it? is a favorite kender expression. — Margaret Weis

If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character. — Frederick William Robertson

She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley. — Barack Obama

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
fool no where but in's own house. — William Shakespeare

It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond. — Wale

Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. — John Steinbeck

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate. — George R R Martin

To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels. — Clive Barker

Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
Upon thy wicked dam — William Shakespeare

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. — D.H. Lawrence

DARE TO COMPARE
If 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

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. — Olivia Munn

Enjoy the insult as you deliver it, before you learn its cost. — Mason Cooley

Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you're at it? (Julian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague. — Susan Andersen

She's so ugly, the tide wouldn't take her out. — Martin Kaye

The easiest way to disarm a bully or a jerk is to take any insult he throws at you and follow it with, 'I know, and isn't it fabulous?! — Dan Pearce

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

Something else? That's the nice way of saying they're bat-shit crazy. — J. Lynn

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

For a minister's daughter," he said, "you hit hard ... and quite often, below the belt too. — Essie Summers

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. — Thomas Reed

You are a deviant from the social norm!"
"Is that an insult or a diagnosis? — Roger Zelazny

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

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. — Cordell Hull

Plus there was the standard French insult of ignoring your French and answering in English. — Glen Duncan

The English understand the nuance of insult better than any other race — Helen Bryan

When a man's pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult. — James Clavell

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

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

I don't write about Google except to insult the company. — Kara Swisher

To call A Lot like Love dead in the water is an insult to water. — Roger Ebert

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

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time. — Suzanne Fields

I tell you, one more insult and I'll take his curling tongs and ram them so far up his arse he'll be able to curl the damned thing from the inside. — David Gemmell

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

Intelligence'?" repeated Magorian, as Bane and several others roared with rage and pawed the ground. "We consider that a great insult, human! — J.K. Rowling

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

An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings. — Don Rickles

To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world. — Julia Quinn

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

Who the hell do you think you're, Kiddo?
I don't do thinking, Sir. I simply improvise. — Toba Beta

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

I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some injury, to force her to keep some memory of me. — Marcel Proust

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

If our faith delivers us from worry, then worry is an insult flung in the face of God. — Robert Runcie

Laurent had stopped dead the moment he had seen Damen, his face turning white as though in reaction to a slap, or an insult. — C.S. Pacat