Top 44 A Slap In The Face Quotes
#1. Old age is an insult. Old age is a slap in the face. It sabotages a fine mind ( ... ).
Penelope Lively
#2. When you begin to wait for miracles, you give God a slap in the face.
Sunday Adelaja
#3. You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor and an A-minus feel like a slap in the face.
Taylor Mali
#4. Everybody understands a slap in the face. In Japan, Belgium, or America, a punch is a punch. Comedy will be different in Europe or America or Japan, so my movies are very international.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#5. After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.
Terry Pratchett
#6. Maybe love was different for everyone, sometimes soft and gentle, other times a slap in the face - a doe-eyed vixen that called you out on your shit and set every inch of you on fire.
Keira Blackwood
#7. The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.
Carter Burwell
#8. Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
Markus Zusak
#9. And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.
John Irving
#11. Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief inside me, the more I understand that. It's as if sunshine is a slap in the face that says, Look, the world's all bright and shiny! Too bad you're not.
Karen Marie Moning
#12. If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory.
Ardal O'Hanlon
#13. When you wake up from a nightmare, the reality comforts you. When you wake up from the best dream ever, reality is a burden, a slap-in-the-face reminder that you could feel this, you could have this, but you don't and you won't.
Karina Halle
#14. I deal with negative, nasty comments on a regular basis. It's difficult to digest because I've always been sensitive and it's a slap in the face to have someone respond cruely when you're trying to lift people up. It's been a huge lesson for me.
Kathryn Budig
#15. Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting South African cringe.
Simphiwe Dana
#16. The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.
Mickey Rooney
#17. Some people are saying it's a slap in the face for me to go to a competitor, but it also was a slap in my face that they would go out and trade for Matt Williams, especially when my situation was unsure.
Albert Belle
#18. There is a certain type of person to whom a closed door is a challenge - a dare, a taunt, a glove thrown down - and I am one of them. A closed door is more than a mystery to be solved: It's an insult. A slap in the face.
Alan Bradley
#19. When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their draft board to volunteer to fight for our country. That act of patriotism was answered with a slap in the face. We were denied service and categorized as enemy non-alien.
George Takei
#20. No well-bred person goes ashore on someone else's island when there's no one home. But if they put up a sign, then you do it anyway, because it's a slap in the face
Tove Jansson
#21. Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.
L.M. Montgomery
#22. Laurent had stopped dead the moment he had seen Damen, his face turning white as though in reaction to a slap, or an insult.
C.S. Pacat
#23. Swing your partner, dosey-do, now clap your hands ... uh-oh, that's all the square dance moves I know ... I'll bluff the rest. Slap your partner in the face, Write bad checks all over the place, Flirt with strangers, annoy your spouse, Get a divorce and lose your house, ... uh ... dosey-do.
Scott Adams
#24. He needs to get a hard slap of reality in the face every once in a while. He has an arrogant side.
Robbie Savage
#25. The last thing you want to do is be a bore. When you wake up in the morning, give yourself a good mirror test. If you look like you're going to be a sulking, pouting bore, slap yourself in the face before you go out to the office.
Jack Welch
#26. Some People Deserve an Invisible
Flying Slap Right in The Face With A
Reason in its Caption.
Ahmed Ali Anjum
#27. Late one day James and I watch the sun fly across the sky like a basketball on fire until it falls down completely and lands in Benjamin Lake with a splash and shakes the ground and even wakes up Lester FallsApart who thought it was his father come back to slap his face again.
Sherman Alexie
#28. Sports Jerseys: To wear another man's name on your back is a subconscious slap in the face to who you are. Don't fantasize about being someone else. Put in the work required to rise to the level of your greatest self.
Steve Maraboli
#29. A slap or a fat check is what it takes if you want to see all the passions that go beating about behind a face take a sudden tack. It's as beautiful as watching a sailing ship maneuvering in a stormy sea. The whole person keels over in the changed wind.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#30. Everyone else would have danced around the truth for too long a time. Lirah, was able to slap them in the face with it until it could be avoided no longer.
Melina Marchetta
#31. Depression is very real. It'll back you into a dark room, slap you across the face, spit in your eyes, scream in your ears, and punch you in the gut - Until you give in.
Anonymous
#32. I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face ... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.
Marjane Satrapi
#33. No!" I wrestled with the covers as tears fell unchecked down my cheeks. The night terror had seemed all too real. The stinging slap echoed on my skin and I pressed a palm to my tender face. annoyed at my weakness I bundled myself in blankets and padded barefoot to the deck.
Freedom Matthews
#34. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. he put his hand to his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?"
"The other ten percent," she said, and they rode the rest of the way down the street in silence.
Cassandra Clare
#35. I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair.
Billy Campbell
#36. The very idea that the Chief would let anybody expose himself to danger in his place is-well, I ought to slap your face; that's what I ought to do!
Robert A. Heinlein
#37. I could feel the muscles in my face twitch as his response sunk into me. It was a resounding no with a slap of you fucking drunk attached.
Cassandra Giovanni
#38. What you don't learn in art theory is how too big a compliment can hurt more than a slap to the face.
Chuck Palahniuk
#39. It wasn't sealed - she opened the flap. Inside was a cheque for a thousand dollars. Made out to her. From Daniel. It was a colossal slap in the face.
Lesley Lokko
#40. You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but then he said it with his eyes, and there were limits to correction - no way, in the end, to penetrate behind the blue irises and eradicate a boy's disgust.
Jonathan Franzen
#41. Gradually, the physical cruelty and punishment beatings started and it got worse. He'd be on his knees to try to teach me how to fight, so my father made out. Whack! His hand would slap in to my face with the full force might of a 6ft 4in 18st man!
Stephen Richards
#42. Honesty: what a refreshing slap in the face it is.
T. M. Brenner
#43. Never hit a man with a closed fist," he told her. He could feel her pulse.
"Why? Because it gives you an excuse to manhandle me?"
He let go. "Slap his face instead."
"Ha."
"It will make him take you less seriously, and then he won't be expecting it when you knee him in the groin.
Courtney Milan
#44. Nobody can control their emotional reactions, we can only control our actions, and my current action was to slap my jealousy in the face and shove her in a vat of shut the fuck up.
Abigail Barnette
