Insults Quotes

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

Joseph Addison

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.

Russell Lynes

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

A prince is venison in heaven.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Stop your complaining, stop your doctoring; this tumult has arisen and is direct from above, and it will not cease till it makes all the adversaries of the Word like the mud on the streets. But it is sad to have to remind a theologian like you of these things, as if you were a pupil instead of one who ought to be teaching others.

Martin Luther King Jr.

How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

Antoine De SaintExupery

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.

Martin Luther King Jr.

You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense.

Ken Keyes Jr.

[Rome], who was formerly the gate of heaven, is now a sort of open mouth of hell.

Martin Luther King Jr.

One can insult an honest man or an honest woman, but to tell a thief that he is a thief is merely la constation d'un fait

Leo Tolstoy

These words of yours, devoid of Christ, devoid of Spirit, are colder than ice itself, so that they tarnish the beauty of your eloquence. Perhaps they were dragged out of you, poor fellow, by fear of the pontiffs and tyrants, lest you should seem altogether an atheist!

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Sigmund Freud

Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is easy to forgive an insult, but harder to forget one.

Michael Lipsey

what more scoundrelly trick could you have played on us?

Martin Luther King Jr.

This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Slander expires at a good woman's door.

Danish proverb