Insults Quotes

Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.

Cordell Hull

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

Raoul Vaneigem

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Rene Descartes

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.

Benjamin Franklin

Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.

Proverb

Even rabbits insult an dead lion.

Proverb

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

George Bernard Shaw

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

George Bancroft

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

Paul Gallico

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai Stevenson

He who puts up with insult invites injury.

Yiddish Proverb

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

Mary Stewart

I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

Aneurin Bevan

Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.

William Shakespeare

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Herodotus

I will say something still easier. Take a single flea or louse-since you tempt and mock our God with this talk about curing a lame horse-and if, after combining all the powers and concentrating all the efforts both of your good and all your supporters, you succeed in killing it in the name of free choice, you shall be victorious, your case shall be established, and we too will come at once and worship that god of yours, that wonderful killer of the louse.

Martin Luther King Jr.

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they -- at least the ones that I know personally -- have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

Winona Ryder

You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.

Judge Hall

It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

Epictetus