92 Insult Quotes for You to Enjoy

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said. William F. Buckley, Jr.

You Intelligence Believe Insult Said Just Really Your Suggesting

I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort. Gordon B. Hinckley

Positive Life Good Virtue Our Compliment More Voices Through Generously Look Accentuate Insult Am Still Go Effort Endorse Little Asking Sarcasm Deeper Suggesting

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hurt Party Has-Been He Wronged Healed Because Insult Does Stiff Been Want Wants Apology Injured Second

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. George Washington

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud

First Civilization Instead Insult Stone Human Who Founder

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. Liu Xiaobo

Truth Nature Rights Mother Free Free Speech Human Nature Human Rights Free Expression Suppress Insult Stifle Human Root Base Expression Speech

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Sooner Insult Than Forgotten Much Injury

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

You Crossed Alligator Never River Until Insult After

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. Toni Morrison

People Thought Other Deficient About Something Never Absorb Exclusion Looked Insult Always Person Pitiable Acts

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult. Rowan Atkinson

Problem Criticism Too Stating Point Point Of View Clear Merely Alternative Insult View Sarcasm Many Ridicule Things Interpreted Orthodoxy

The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all. Ferdinand Marcos

Reality Dictatorship Language Dissent Unpunished Allowed Insult Go Malevolent

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. Frederick Douglass

Me Man Will Gentleman Insult

Never insult anyone by accident. Robert A. Heinlein

Accident Never Insult Anyone

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. Russell Lynes

You Top Laugh Insult Off Ignore Deserved

Imagine for a moment the result if everyone were to love one another as Jesus loves his disciples. We would have no bickering, quarreling, strife, or contention in our homes. We would not offend or insult one another either verbally or in any other way. We would not have unnecessary litigation over small matters. Joseph B. Wirthlin

Love Result Matters Other Everyone Our Strife Way Unnecessary Would Small Over Bickering Disciples Another Insult Contention Verbally Were His Offend Any Any Other Way Either Litigation Loves To Love Moment Homes Jesus Imagine

Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding? Richard Dawkins

God You Physics Water Walk Wine Party Believe Trick Would Invented Laws Wedding Cheap He Him Insult Order Them Might Turn Even Creator Violate Suggest

Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult. Henry Rollins

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Social media has become a high school playground where the challenge is what idiot can come up with the best insult, and do you end up congratulating them for it? David Draiman

Best You School Social Media Challenge Idiot Become High High School Come Insult End Up Where Social Them Media Playground

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. Walter Lippmann

Good Nature Intelligence Loan Will Citizen Sense Evidence Good Nature Compliment See Soon Perhaps Partisan Insult Opinion Private Private Citizen His Imposition Public Public Opinion Appeals

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