Insult Quotes, Sayings about Insult
I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town - Abe Lemons.
To be insulted by you is to be garlanded with lilies - Aristophanes.
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws - Charles Baudelaire.
The problem with the gene pool is that there’s no lifeguard - David Gerrold.
You couldn’t get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance - Edward Flaherty.
I am a poor man, but I would gladly give ten shillings to find out who sent me the insulting Christmas card I received this morning - George Grossmith.
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 Bush.
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 - G. K. Chesterton.
I’ve had a wonderful evening - but this wasn’t it - Groucho Marx.
A slander is like a hornet; if you can’t kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it - Henry Wheeler Shaw.
Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog - Harold Wilson.
A broken bone can heal, but the wound, a word opens can fester forever - Jessamyn West.
The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can’t ignore it, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh at it; if you can’t laugh at it, it’s probably deserved - J. Russel Lynes.
It’d be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack - Katharine Hepburn .
A graceful taunt is worth, a thousand insults - Louis Nizer.
Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it - Mark Twain.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation - Moliere.
Nancy Astor: “If you were my husband, Winston, I should flavour your coffee with poison”.
Winston Churchill: “If I were your husband, madam, I should drink it”.
She has the answer to everything and the solution to nothing - Oscar Levant.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally - Oscar Wilde.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go - Oscar Wilde.
I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you’re twenty minutes - Oscar Wilde.
She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say “when” - P.G. Wodehouse.
Never insult anyone by accident - Robert A. Heinlein.
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead - Rose Macaulay.
Her face was her chaperone - Rupert Hughes.
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble - Sinclair Lewis.
One insult pocketed soon produces another - Thomas Jefferson.
O, she is the antidote to desire - William Congreve.
The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts - William Hazlitt.
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