Insults Quotes

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

William Shakespeare

They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.

William Shakespeare

He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, something visceral and volcanic occurred within him. He wasn't sure what this might mean--except perhaps that he had got life and art mixed up, back to front, upside down.

Julian Barnes

This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

Henry Miller

The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.

João Magueijo

Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters;But when low dunces will affront,What man alive can stand the brunt?http://www.netpoets.com/classic/poems/062008.htm

Jonathan Swift, The Sick Lion an

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

Kresley Cole

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

William Shakespeare

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

Alexander McCall Smith

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

Ben Harper

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

Oscar Wilde

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.

William Shakespeare

It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical transition, he drags us who knew nothing of rhetoric away with him, as if the matter at issue here were of no moment, but simply a lot of quibbling, and dashes bravely out of the crowded court, crowned with ivy and laurel.

Martin Luther King Jr.

One insult pocketed soon produces another

Thomas Jefferson

a quite novel kind of grammar and logic, according to which what is something is nothing

Martin Luther King Jr.

Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

You see, however, which is called the Court of Rome, and which neither you nor any man can deny to be more corrupt than any Babylon or Sodom, and quite, as I believe, of a lost, desperate and hopeless impiety.

Martin Luther King Jr.

[Jerome] is a man quite without either judgment or application.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the knee plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent?

Julia Kavanagh