Top 58 Best Insult Quotes
#1. He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#2. If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
Bill Russell
#3. [Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
Virginia Woolf
#4. The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.
Adeline Yen Mah
#6. Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.
Aesop
#7. The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
Isabel Allende
#8. [I]f I suffered only one fool gladly, I assure you it would be you.
Iain M. Banks
#9. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.
Janet Fitch
#10. He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Foote
#11. I learnt that no matter what names they give you, nothing applies until you wish it to. No insult, no barb yours to bear unless you want it to. Use it, if you want. Make it into a weapon and let it boomerang back to those who uttered it. Just don't let it overpower your life.
Sweety Shinde
#13. You English are like mad bulls ... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as is unworthy of a great nation. I regard this as a personal insult ... You make it uncommonly difficult for a man to remain friendly to England.
Wilhelm II
#14. Accustomed to John Reed's abuse, I never had an idea of replying to it; my care was how to endure the blow which would certainly follow the insult.
Charlotte Bronte
#15. You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your God. This is the most disgusting dogma of Christian religion, the greatest insult to the Highest Being, the climax of madness and insanity.
Frederick The Great
#16. All my devotion is an insult to God unless every bit of my practical life squares with Jesus Christ's demands.
Eric Ludy
#17. Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.
Ernest Belfort Bax
#18. To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage.
Charlie Munger
#19. Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
Jonathan Swift
#20. Anthropologist Mary Douglas (1991) examines the very thin line separating a joke from an insult: a joke expresses something a community is ready to hear; an insult expresses something it doesn't want to consider.
Henry Jenkins
#21. In my normal world, cars do not go off the road and explode. Please, do not insult my intelligence.
K.J. Cales
#22. It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.
Al Alvarez
#23. It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.
Manasa Rao
#24. Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.
Brandon Sanderson
#25. Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
Suzanne Fields
#26. No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.
Richard Stallman
#27. People will doubt you, but do you doubt your own self? People will insult your integrity, but do you trust yourself? If you are at peace with yourself and with God, you can be at peace with the world.
Nana Awere Damoah
#28. This guy was making me tired. "Thanks for the afternoon's entertainment," I said. "I'll flush a copy of my bill down the toilet. You should be getting it in a couple of days.
John Swartzwelder
#30. He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.
Paulo Coelho
#31. Ambassadors, of course, do not blush. It is a requisite of the job that they can sustain any manner of insult without any visible change at all to their face.
Sarah Dunant
#32. Once an insult like that has been released, there's no way to take it back. It becomes one more cut on my soul.
Katie McGarry
#33. In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.
Criss Jami
#34. I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.'
'Station! Station!
your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.
Charlotte Bronte
#35. Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning
Si Robertson
#36. The only insult I've ever received in my adult life was when someone asked me, "Do you have a hobby?" A HOBBY?! DO I LOOK LIKE A FUCKING DABBLER?!
John Waters
#38. Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.
John Kennedy Toole
#39. He insulted me' -this knowledge binds one with terrible demerit karma.
Dada Bhagwan
#40. Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.
Rex Stout
#41. It is a tremendous strength to be able to digest an insult.
Dada Bhagwan
#42. Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.
Pankaj Mishra
#43. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]
Winston S. Churchill
#44. It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
Myrtle Reed
#45. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz did their best Donald Trump impersonation. All three unleashing an unprecedented string of insults and attacks fit more for a barroom than a presidential debate stage.
Chris Hayes
#46. Puta, really, that's the best insult you got? I've been called the Whore of Babylon on national TV; puta just doesn't quite cut it.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#47. Why does even the best person hold back something from another? Why not say directly what we feel if we know that what we entrust won't be scattered to the winds? As it is, everyone looks much tougher than he really is, as if he felt it'd be an insult to his feeling if he expressed them too readily.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#48. The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.
Rachel Maddow
#49. What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
Samuel Johnson
#50. He seemed as graciously at home as in the best restaurants of the city; his elegance had an odd quality here - it did not insult the place, but seemed to transform it, like the presence of a king who never alters his manner, yet makes a palace of any house he enters.
Ayn Rand
#51. I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.
Terry Pratchett
#52. My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.
Amy Lee
#53. The issues we hear Donald Trump talking about are just so contrary to who we are as a people. They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves.
Cory Booker
#54. The Gaians sneered at the Zhore behind their backs, calling them pacifists, as if that word were an insult, but Lirzhan did not take it as such. A peaceful solution was always best, but if one did not present itself, then so be it.
Christine Pope
#55. No one's ever successfully insulted him, because he refuses to be insulted. People do their best, but Yung won't even acknowledge the attempt of an affront.
Trish Mercer
#56. An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth.
Don Rickles
#57. Along with yourself, who else really cares about this issue? (That is by far the best way to ask about other influencers and your contact's decision-making authority without it coming off as an insult.
Mike Weinberg
#58. To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.
Robin Sharma