Don't Get Insulted Quotes

#1. We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.

John Green

#2. I could not recall the last time I had been so flagrantly insulted.

Don't make enemies, I told myself.
Swallow your pride.
Hold your tongue.

But the fact was, I had real difficulty with those particular virtues.

Jen Crane

#3. I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."

- J.B Books in The Shootist 1976, directed by Don Siegel

John Wayne

#4. The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me ... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

Edouard Manet

#5. I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

Adam Rich

#6. The first generation from the '50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks, I mean just out and out crooks. And the next generation had a little more finesse. But I mean those first wave of people, you know, definitely would take all your money, no doubt about it.

Al Kooper

#7. I've found out since that such people don't know what they're doing, and get insulted when you make some suggestion or criticism.

Richard Feynman

#8. Sometimes all you need is to keep yourself busy all the time.

Lovely Goyal

#9. I am definitely insulted that you don't remember me. I gave you some of my best stuff -
Ian Fitzgerald

Stephanie Rowe

#10. You better be careful, I've got a ladle. You never know what a trained killer can do with an innocent-looking kitchen utensil.
I don't think you're a trained killer.
So should I be insulted that you think I'm an amateur killer?

Eileen Cook

#11. Give that boy a cookie!"
Now really wasn't the time to think about food. And where was she keeping them? In her pockets? They'd be all crumbled.
"I don't want one. Thank you."
Eyebrows raised, she wrinkled her nose - I must have insulted her by not accepting her offer.

Jus Accardo

#12. Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you ... "
... "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible.
"Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile?

Eoin Colfer

#13. It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious

Ayn Rand

#14. I, myself, was always recognized ... as the "slow one" in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was ... an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

Agatha Christie

#15. I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

John Wayne

#16. If one is sick, one is usually the last person to know.

Ahmed Mostafa

#17. Mom is talking to Jack. "I hear you're interested in zoo animals."
I snort. There's a sentence you don't hear too often. I fake an insulted sigh.
"Well, thank-you, Mother. Yes, I'm hungry, but you don't have to be so honest about it. Your tact is amazing.

Erynn Mangum

#18. Are you still carrying everyone who's insulted you, injured you or interfered with you? That's a lot of weight. I'd let it go, personally, and just move on and forget. Be in the moment. Don't even notice.

Frederick Lenz

#19. You don't just walk out because you think someone has insulted you and your pride has been hurt.

Jimmy Iovine

#20. Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works.

Ken Dodd

#21. It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.

Lucy Christopher

#22. I promise, i will keep all my promise.

Nikhil Yadav

#23. Are you murdering more eggs for breakfast?" Japhet raised his head as the sound of boiling water filled the small apartment.
"Don't insult my eggs, Buchanan."
"You insulted my roasted chicken, Kappel, so I can insult your eggs all I want.

Jack Lewis Baillot

#24. Rejection is part of the journey toward success, so don't be insulted or get upset when it happens. In fact, get excited about how you just got closer to your Yes!

Michelle Moore

#25. Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, "Don't you worry about being called names?" retorted, "Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?

Alain De Botton

#26. I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend to think you just dictate your stories into a tape recorder. And I'm not necessarily insulted by that, because I think that just means that it looks easy.

David Sedaris

#27. I don't believe in countries, governments, institutions or borders. I believe in people. When someone asks for my passport, I feel insulted.

Robin Sacredfire

#28. I'm always ready for a change. I'm Irish. I'm a leprechaun.

Shaquille O'Neal

#29. The celebrity sense of writers is something which is very tempting ... But the enthusiasm comes from the fact that it's such a natural activity, storytelling.

Jim Crace

#30. You ... you don't look like a Jew,' she heard him mumble. 'What does a Jew look like, you fatuous bastard'? - 'Do you think I should have a nose like a boat hook, you stupid old prick!

Ben Elton

#31. If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.

Shams Tabrizi

#32. The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.

Sathya Sai Baba

#33. All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

Margaret Mitchell

#34. What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Rick Perlstein

#35. Don't thank me," snapped Idrith, "I just insulted you.

Michelle Frost