Quotes About Being Insulted

#1. She said "sweet boy" again, as if making a diagnosis like tooth decay or flat feet. I was embarrassed. I didn't know if I was being insulted or complimented.

Shawn Stewart Ruff

#2. I can't stand things that are poorly made or shoddily conceived. I feel like I'm being insulted when something is poorly designed, poorly made. It's like whoever made that thing didn't respect the rest of us enough to do it well.

Damian Kulash

#3. Being insulted by a smart-mouthed little punk like you.. really pisses me off!

Sui Ishida

#4. Nothing is worse than the secret humiliation of being insulted by proxy.

Becky Albertalli

#5. The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.

Timothy Noah

#6. I know people are saying they like you. I'm not being insulted or pushed around or anything. People are coming up because they like me. Nevertheless, I can't be everybody's ... none of us can. I hate saying no to people.

Morgan Freeman

#7. Hey, look - your girlfriend is saying something.
Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl?

Eoin Colfer

#8. It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

Isak Dinesen

#9. Being insulted again and again it doesn't mean that you haven't self respect. It means that you value someone most.

Abhishek Rai

#10. 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

#11. Being insulted by your child and loving them anyway is the human condition.

Sarah Ruhl

#12. Being insulted offers you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.

Bryant McGill

#13. Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.

Dada Bhagwan

#14. One will become shameless if he does not fear insults in the worldly life. And in nischay [determination in the spiritual life] if one does not fear being insulted, he becomes independent.

Dada Bhagwan

#15. [T]he witch appears to have alternated between being a terrifying enemy who could bring ruin and death and a pathetic figure to be despised and insulted.

Robin Briggs

#16. I'll see you off," Daru said. "No," said Balducci. "There's no use being polite. You insulted me.

Albert Camus

#17. I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates

Jean-Claude Juncker

#18. I can take a joke," she tells me, sounding insulted.
"Yeah? When?"
"When it's not being delivered by a childish jackass who thinks he's God's gift to women."
"I am not childish." God's gift on the other hand? My record speaks for itself.
"Oh, bite me."
I wish.

Emma Chase

#19. I hear the police did a biopsy."
"You mean autopsy," I said.
"Whatever.

Suzanne M. Trauth

#20. When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.

George Saunders

#21. Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

Aaron Swartz

#22. 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

#23. We are here to heal, not harm. We are here to love, not hate. We are here to create, not destroy.

Anthony D. Williams

#24. Any man who is capable of being offended or insulted after the age of forty is either immature or a damned hypocrite." (Senator)

Leonard Holton

#25. The things we remember are what we hold on to. And what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives.

Katherine Center

#26. Your capacity to grow determines your capacity to lead.

Mark Millar

#27. One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words.

Neil Genzlinger

#28. The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.

Christopher Fowler

#29. They respected only the strong men who could not be insulted without a price being paid in blood.

Larry McMurtry

#30. I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the idea that unless I see other fat birds in fashion magazines, I will be reduced to a sniveling wreck of a human being.

Julie Burchill

#31. There was a long pause while she hated everyone impartially: Tor for behaving like a farmer's son whose pet chicken has just been insulted; her father, for being so immovably kingly; and Perlith for being Perlith.

Robin McKinley

#32. Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

Sammy Davis Jr.

#33. On the other hand, we are not given a Book of Mormon for some time, just when Christopher had begun to feel insulted. It was analogous, he said, to going to a gay bar and not being checked out. He wasn't gay, but wasn't it nice to be asked?

Liz Stephens

#34. We crashed and collided in ways I didn't think were possible between two people. If I wasn't careful, I was going to be in over my head before I realized what was happening.

T.J. Klune

#35. Just be yourself," Connor tells him. "I know you probably fail at written word, but in person, you usually ace being who you are."
"I'm going to ignore the part where you fucking insulted me."
Connor grins. "Why? Those are the best parts."
Ryke flips him off.

Krista Ritchie

#36. Then shut up or grab a sword and come help. (Takeshi)
Is that a challenge? (Savitar)
It would be if I didn't know for a fact that you're too lazy to rise to one. (Takeshi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#37. I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

Aleister Crowley

#38. Don't long for the unripe grape.

Horace