Never Insult Quotes

#1. It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

Myrtle Reed

#2. Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning

Si Robertson

#3. Never insult anyone by accident.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. Never insult someone's OTP, if they kill you, it's your fault.

Dan Howell

#5. Never spit in front of women and children, and never insult the great state of Texas.

Henry Garza

#6. One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature's too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.

Marquis De Sade

#7. I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.

John Wayne

#8. Never insult seven men if you're only carrying a six shooter.

Harry Morgan

#9. The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see.

Richie Benaud

#10. Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.

Zane Grey

#11. We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

John Calvin

#12. But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

Ben Harper

#13. Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

Cordell Hull

#14. Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.

Garrison Keillor

#15. There's a way of doing it!" Hermione said crossly. "There just has to be!" She seemed to be taking the library's lack of useful information on the subject as a personal insult; it had never failed her before.

J.K. Rowling

#16. Some men simply refuse to appear insulted. But then, having felt the sting from the slap on their cheek, know just where to slip the knife, their smile never fading.

Andrew Levkoff

#17. We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

Ferdinand Mount

#18. You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#19. The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.

Joao Magueijo

#20. Hurt, he'll never be hurt
he's made to hurt other people.

George Eliot

#21. People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now ... I love it.

Danny Aiello

#22. You know when you mix butt and Angel in the same sentence, it becomes an insult," I say and take a big gulp from the can. With his back to me, he says, "Trust me, I would never dream of insulting your butt. I'm sure it's better than anything I'm cooking out here.

Rucy Ban

#23. I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!

J.K. Rowling

#24. I have been in the entertainment business some forty-three years, and I have never said anything detrimental or anything that might be construed as belittling any race or religion. I would be a sucker to do so because you can't insult the customers.

W.C. Fields

#25. Never ever make a joke to the police, they have no sense of humour. Never make a political joke, it will always be considered an insult. Always remember that umbrage can be taken by the lift of an eyebrow. Remember that if offence can possibly be taken, it will be.

Dick Francis

#26. Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

Nelson Mandela

#27. There's a reason straight men call us 'cocksuckers'. I've just never understood why it's considered an insult.

B. Snow

#28. My point,' I said, 'is that there's hell in every handshake, never mind an outright and humiliating insult.

Thomas Ligotti

#29. Sometimes, it's never an insult to be called what someone thinks is a bad name.

Harper Lee

#30. If she can be stolen, then she was never yours to begin with. And do not insult my skills or question my ability to come through. I always come through.

J.A. Huss

#31. I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

Toni Morrison

#32. I've never met anyone who had a monkey for a friend before. (Maggie)
I don't know. I think those two guys you were with would qualify as primates, but then, that's an insult to the primate and I don't want Marvin to get pissed at me. He has higher sensibilities, you know? (Wren)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#33. If you lend someone 20 dollars and never see that person again, it's probably worth it.

Sam Ewing

#34. Your wit never ceases to underwhelm me.

A&E Kirk

#35. Clinton leaned in close, breath stinking. "I'm a well-compensated lawman, Reb. Let's leave it at that. You'll never prove anything else."
"You're no lawman. You are a whore," Tom growled.

C.G. Faulkner

#36. The only mothers who never embarrass, harass, dismiss, discount, deceive, distort, neglect, baffle, appall, inhibit, incite, insult, or age poorly are dead mothers, perfectly contained in photographs, pressed into two dimensions like a golden autumn leaf.

Kelly Corrigan

#37. Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Oscar Wilde

#38. Baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. So don't let Mrs Dubose get you down. She had enough troubles or her own.

Harper Lee

#39. I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life.

Randall Robinson

#40. I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone.

LeBron James

#41. When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

William Bagley

#42. You should never let a word control you, intimidate you, or make you uncomfortable, and that applies to people of all races. Intent is where insult lies, and hate. Not in language.

Felix Clay

#43. They would probably never even know that the human race existed. Such monumental indifference was worse than any deliberate insult. When

Arthur C. Clarke

#44. Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining silent for billions of years somewhere outside our universe!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#45. Never speak ill of the dead, insult his kin instead.

Brian Spellman

#46. LIFE TIP #7: Respect your elders. You never know when they'll insult the person you hate.

Emma Hart

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

Neville Chamberlain

#50. If you say that you never lie in life,
you honestly insult my intelligence.

Toba Beta

#51. Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.

Wendy E. Long

#52. Relationship never starts with a fist to the face, or an insult. If it did there'd be no second date. It always starts gently. Kindly. The other person draws you in. To trust them. To need them. And then they slowly turn. Little by little, increasing the heat. Until you're trapped.

Louise Penny

#53. It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

Oswald Chambers

#54. I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

Jules Renard

#55. Insult her again, and I will cut your into so many pieces they'll never find them all.

Julie Kagawa

#56. It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word
on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.

Epictetus

#57. Teach positively, never abuse kids in the teaching process. I believe it is cowardly to teach in a negative way, to insult players, or challenge their manhood.

Gordie Gillespie

#58. You see, violence merely creates more violence.
It's a cycle that never ends ...
You insult me, I shoot you, you drop dead.
Someone else insults me, I shoot them, they drop dead ...
And it just keeps repeating over and over again.
And for what? lol

Jose N. Harris

#59. We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.

Henry David Thoreau

#60. Let me be clear that I never offered House Astor an insult ... Nor did I insult Reginald. I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it's hardly my concern.

Jim Butcher

#61. Dumb as he looked, he never missed an insult.
Dr. Rowan musing about Simple Silas

Ava Gray

#62. It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

Harper Lee

#63. They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Thomas Reed

#64. If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.

Hulk Hogan

#65. He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears every hardship, reproach and insult nobly, never thinking the least evil of anyone.

Maximus The Confessor

#66. However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or
complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't
this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will
never even be offered life in the first place?

Richard Dawkins

#67. Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.

Duane Michals

#68. Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.

Charles Caleb Colton

#69. I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.

Julie Anne Peters

#70. This hand shall never more come near thee with such friendship

William Shakespeare

#71. Hot, short, thorough," I said. I hesitated before adding, "Please." It never pays to insult computers that are smart enough to form sentences. Not when they're in control of the locks, and especially when they have the capacity to boil you in bleach.
"Absolutely," said the shower.

Mira Grant

#72. People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#73. Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

Johnny Carson

#74. 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

#75. Never look down on someone because God himself does not do so. No matter what defines the status, nationality or gender of a person, once God's spirit is in him/her, he or she becomes a complete creature with complete potentials!

Israelmore Ayivor

#76. From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#77. I make it a policy never to seduce anyone prettier than I am."
I laughed. "I think that was an insult.

Leigh Bardugo