Top 32 Insult To Injury Quotes
#1. I would counsel her to maintain the pregnancy on the grounds that the developing baby within her is a co-victim
of the rapist's heinous crime. To kill the fetus, who is innocent of the offense, is to add insult to injury.
R.C. Sproul
#2. I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water - and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury.
Richelle Mead
#3. To add insult to injury there's a television at the end of the ward. It's unavoidable, and even more unbearable than usual as it's constantly tuned to ITV, so there are adverts. I wonder if hell is like this? I'd definitely prefer lakes of sulphur and at least being able to swim about in them.
Jo Walton
#4. 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
#5. I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.
Robert Purvis
#6. Officer down. Officer down."
"I'm an officer now, am I? That's insult to injury.
J.D. Robb
#7. I haven't dated Clancy - God help me if I do - but he's tipping my all-men-are-jackasses theory completely over the edge of the scale. To add insult to injury, he looks like the damn cover of a romance novel. I hate those covers.
N.L. Gervasio
#8. There is one type of gambling which should always be encouraged. It is betting on goodness. When a person has wronged you, be good to him. If he adds insult to injury, double the bet. And keep on doubling it. You will surely win!
J.P. Vaswani
#9. The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and
to add insult to injury
at a profit.
The Invisible Committee
#10. To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
Benjamin Tucker
#11. The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.
Demetri Martin
#12. A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'
Jon Stewart
#13. If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.
Eddie Izzard
#15. And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other.
Thomas Paine
#16. He'd left a new nightmare behind him, like an infection in a sore - the insult after the injury.
Stephenie Meyer
#17. I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.
Charles Buxton
#18. It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#19. For me, life is an opportunity to serve Him, and death is the privilege of getting to be with Him.
Mehdi Dibaj
#20. When a poor man's wronged, he becomes a very difficult customer. To start with, he gets a lot of sympathy: and then he takes his bad treatment not just as an injury, but as a personal insult.
Menander
#22. Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.
Mahavira
#23. I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some injury, to force her to keep some memory of me.
Marcel Proust
#24. It would be perfect if they could make it taste like water, but pretending that something that laden with chemicals is somehow remotely connected to fruit or sunshine or chirpy rugrats adds insult to the injury of needing to drink the damn stuff in the first place.
Ann Somerville
#25. If the sky was so perfect, why was the earth all wrong
Lawrence Hill
#26. There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#27. [The answer of Solon to the question 'Which is the most perfect popular government?']
That where the least injury done to the meanest individual, is considered as an insult on the whole constitution.
Solon
#28. Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver-insult added to injury.
Jodi Picoult
#29. Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.
Oliver Sacks
#30. The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,
efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
Arthur Helps
#31. I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects ...
Charles Darwin
#32. Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
Wendell Berry
