Insult Quotes

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Mother Teresa
“These are the few ways we can practice humility:

To speak as little as possible of one's self.

To mind one's own business.

Not to want to manage other people's affairs.

To avoid curiosity.

To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.

To pass over the mistakes of others.

To accept insults and injuries.

To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.

To be kind and gentle even under provocation.

Never to stand on one's dignity.

To choose always the hardest.”
Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

Kami Garcia
“You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.”
Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

Rick Riordan
“I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervous about?"
"Look," I said. "I'm sorry about the band room. I hope they didn't kick you our or anything."
"Nah. They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb."
"Was it hard?" Annabeth asked.”
Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

Groucho Marx
“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”
Groucho Marx

Cassandra Clare
“I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.”
Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

Groucho Marx
“I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.”
Groucho Marx

William Shakespeare
“Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
SAMPSON [Aside to Gregory]: Is the law of our side, if I say ay?
GREGORY [Aside to Sampson]: No.
SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.”
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

J.K. Rowling
“Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Ayn Rand
“Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.”
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Sherrilyn Kenyon
“We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

Sherman Alexie
“I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.”
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Groucho Marx
“Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.”
Groucho Marx

Brigham Young
“He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.”
Brigham Young

George Bernard Shaw
“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
George Bernard Shaw

William Shakespeare
“Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.”
William Shakespeare, Richard III

Mae West
“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”
Mae West

George R.R. Martin
“The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.”
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

Derek Landy
“I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.”
Derek Landy, Death Bringer

Muhammad Ali
“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”
Muhammad Ali

Christopher Moore
“I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores.”
Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Gena Showalter
“Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you.”
Gena Showalter, The Queen of Zombie Hearts

Criss Jami
“Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Groucho Marx
“I've got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat you over the head with it.”
Groucho Marx

Richelle Mead
“How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving.”
Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues

David Eddings
“My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen”
David Eddings

Michael Bassey Johnson
“When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“Did anybody tell you that you're a few french fries short of a Happy Meal?”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, This Heart of Mine

“Use a condom. The world doesn't need another you.”
Carroll Bryant

Oscar Wilde
“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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