English Insult Sayings

#1. Plus there was the standard French insult of ignoring your French and answering in English.

Glen Duncan

#2. Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.

Sherman Alexie

#3. For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.

Suzan Shown Harjo

#4. It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.

Yul Vazquez

#5. The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel that he might bestow upon them more benefits than he does.

Wallace D. Wattles

#6. LOSER! You English lose ... I suppose he thought it was the most grievous insult he could hurl. But such a curse doesn't really have any effect on an English person - or a European - it seems to me. We know we're all going to lose in the end so it is deprived of any force as a slur.

William Boyd

#7. I imagined there would be a way to crack the diffraction barrier. But of course I didn't know exactly how it would work, but I had a gut feeling that there must be something, and so I tried to think about it, to be creative.

Stefan Hell

#8. The hearts that never lean must fall.

Emily Dickinson

#9. The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

Horace Mann

#10. Separately, they called our English teacher to register their horror at their offspring being taught about witches, which apparently was an insult to both Islam and Christianity. The English teacher instructed us to white-out the word witches and write in weird sisters.

Bill Campbell

#11. But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

Ellen Douglas

#12. Men of his class didn't marry for love. Men with his past shouldn't marry at all...

Erica Ridley

#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. Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

Garrison Keillor

#15. I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#16. Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.

Sergey Belavenets

#17. There are no rest stops on the road of life. Otherwise they'd be congested with traffic.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country; luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me.

Lenny Bruce

#19. If you're going to yell at me, do it in English, please. I'd like to understand the insult so I can frame an appropriately pithy response.

Chloe Neill

#20. The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

Benjamin Franklin

#21. Don't leave me here with my mind, I thought.

Ian McEwan

#22. The English understand the nuance of insult better than any other race

Helen Bryan

#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. this, they've never felt that, they no longer feel anything, they don't count anymore. I think it's small-minded. I wish there were more people over sixty here, to tell you the truth.

Kathleen Rooney