Top 100 Quotes About Insulting
#1. This is a very insulting tribute
But take it in good heart
Congratulations Mom and Dad
You've reached Silver together ... apart
Lots of love etc
John Walter Bratton
#2. I think you need to look in the mirror if you think that's gorgeous"
"Ha," Andrew said, grinning.
"We"re identical." Adam shook his head at his twin. "He's insulting both of us, you idiot
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#3. Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.
Jim Butcher
#4. If my parents aren't ignoring me, they're insulting me. I like being ignored better.
P.C. Cast
#5. It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.
Al Alvarez
#6. For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.
Lillian B. Rubin
#8. Mma Ramotswe decided to go back into her office. There was a curious thing about male conversation that she had noticed - men often ended up poking fun at one another. Women did this only rarely, but men seemed to love insulting one another. It was very strange.
Alexander McCall Smith
#9. The younger officer accompanying Waaler was learning something new every day. This afternoon, for example, he learned it was very stupid to rock on a chair while insulting someone, because you are totally defenseless if the insulted party steps over and lands a straight right between the eyes.
Jo Nesbo
#10. It was clear that Eleanor had been to bed with a large and random collection of people, but when I suggested she go to bed with me, she said, 'I don't think we should, just at the moment, do you?' As a man I found this pretty fucking insulting.
Hanif Kureishi
#11. I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.
Steve Earle
#12. All heat drained from my face. Holy shit. I hadn't even started my new job and already I was insulting my new boss ... right after sleeping with him. I was worse than Sylvie. "So you're - "
My speech eluded me.
"Jett Mayfield, the stingy SOB who just hired you." He held out his palm.
J.C. Reed
#13. If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York
O. Henry
#14. The big story today, Barack Obama was accused of insulting Sarah Palin when he criticized Republican policies by saying, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Political experts say that if Obama keeps insulting Palin, he could lose the election and win a job at MSNBC.
Conan O'Brien
#16. I think breeds of dogs and breeds of men are quite a bit alike. If you think it's insulting that I compare people with animals, well, if you knew how I love animals, you would understand that coming from me, this is a compliment.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#17. In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.
Helmut Lang
#18. I thought you called dibs on him."
"I did, but you can have him first. After he dumps you, imagine how good I'll look in comparison."
"Thanks, that's not insulting at all.
Cecily White
#19. The context needs to be that the goal is a healthy mom. Because mothers never make decisions without thinking about that healthy baby. And to suggest otherwise is insulting and degrading and disrespectful.
Jennifer Block
#20. If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a "break-up song," I can't imagine doing that to people I love.
Jack White
#21. Don't just talk about Hispanics and say immediately we must have controlled borders. It's kind of insulting when you think about it. Change the tone would be the first thing. Second, on immigration, I think we need to have a broader approach.
Jeb Bush
#22. If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.
Amy Poehler
#23. Being insulted offers you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.
Bryant McGill
#24. Then a far more grotesque and insulting marriage was arranged between the twenty-year-old John Woodville and Katherine Neville, Warwick's aunt and the dowager duchess of Norfolk. Katherine was not only a four-time widow but also about sixty-five years old.
Dan Jones
#25. England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.
Hanif Kureishi
#27. Most of us don't think forwarding a racist joke or speaking in an insulting 'comedic' accent is appropriate at the workplace. Unfortunately, for those raised in the toxic culture of conservatism, the sort of mentality that leads government employees to do those things is widespread.
Alex Pareene
#28. Wouldn't you like to be my lord Duke of Exeter? Come on, Dom. Say something."
"You have lost your mind."
"Say something less insulting.
Laura Andersen
#29. They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#30. To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.
Julia Quinn
#31. One does not like insults yet ironically he is an expert in insulting others. How can this be called a human-behavior?
Dada Bhagwan
#32. When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'
Dick Gregory
#34. In building the helping relationship, encouragement - via positive reinforcement - certainly seems appropriate. But if it is not sensitively handled, such encouragement can quickly become patronizing and insulting. My
Edgar H Schein
#35. Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.
Tom Bodett
#36. Using the word chic while insulting someone doesn't make it okay.
Luella Christie
#37. What the creeping crud is that?" [Percy] demanded. "You're inside a giant glowing chicken-man!"
"Hawk!" I yelled.
I decided that if I survived this day I would have to make sure this guy never met Sadie. They'd probably take turns insulting me for the rest of eternity.
Rick Riordan
#38. Don't try to nice your way out of this. It's insulting.
Rachel Aaron
#39. I do not have a 24-year-old girlfriend. I have another life altogether.
Jens Lehmann
#40. The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison
#41. The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.
Heinrich Heine
#42. I don't worry too much about people hating or insulting me. I'm a sinful man, and I've made a lot of mistakes. People have reason to hate me.
Phil Robertson
#45. The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.
Julius Caesar Scaliger
#46. Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him, simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.
A.J. Liebling
#47. After making insulting remarks about Mexicans, Donald Trump has been kicked off of NBC and Univision. On the bright side, Trump's hair has a new show on Animal Planet.
Conan O'Brien
#48. The way Donald Trump talks about terrorism and his very insulting language towards Muslims is making him the recruiting sergeant for ISIS.
Hillary Clinton
#49. He takes himself far too seriously and thinks he is very important. I don't like it when someone glorifies themself.
Jens Lehmann
#50. Death is insulting, and I resented its sudden appearance, like an unannounced visit from a boorish relative.
Sue Grafton
#51. Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.
Jeremy Paxman
#52. The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
Finley Peter Dunne
#53. Don't ever compliment me by insulting other women. That's not a compliment, it's a competition none of us agreed to.
Anonymous
#54. when you negate someone's compliment, you are telling them they are wrong. You're telling them they wasted their time. You are questioning their taste and judgment. You are insulting them. If someone wants to compliment you, let them.
Shonda Rhimes
#55. 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
#56. The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.
Auberon Waugh
#57. Lampard is a specialist in insulting people very badly.
Jens Lehmann
#58. Persecution may wear an insulting face. Insults may come as a result of a Christian's lifestyle, which should be different from that of the secular world.
Billy Graham
#59. I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!
Sherman Alexie
#60. Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#61. And she had thought Oliver insulting! At least now she knew where he got it from. Heavens alive, what a family!
She almost felt sorry for him, having a grandmother that condescending. No wonder he had thought his plan would work.
Sabrina Jeffries
#62. They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.
Philip Freneau
#63. In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.
Anton Corbijn
#65. I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.
Asghar Farhadi
#66. Readers should not be loaded with more information and guidance than a lively mind needs
puzzlement can be accepted, but insulting clarity is fatal to a poem.
William Stafford
#67. How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?
Jessica Valenti
#68. John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.
Mark Sheppard
#69. The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
Quentin Crisp
#70. Rape is not a sexual act; it is not the result of a sudden, uncontrollable attraction to a woman in a skimpy dress. It is an act of power and violence. To suggest otherwise is deeply insulting to the vast majority of men, who are perfectly able to control their sexual desires. The
Laura Bates
#71. Not fair," Quentin said. "She's the one insulting us, and she gets to walk away?" "Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality," I said. "Now drink your soda and help me think of nasty names to call her next time she shows up.
Seanan McGuire
#73. Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.
Alphonse Karr
#74. A man is a penis-wrinkle when calling him a dickhead would be a compliment.
N.M. Facile
#75. But he described our shortcomings, physical, mental, moral, and genetic, in great and insulting detail.
Robert A. Heinlein
#76. Laughing is good. so long as you are not insulting anyone.
A Gentlemen
#77. The reason we're often not there for others - whether for our child or our mother or someone who is insulting us or someone who frightens us - is that we're not there for ourselves.
Pema Chodron
#78. A prickle of porcupines, a cackle of hyenas, a pounce of cats, a slither of snakes. But it's a nest of vipers, a quiver of cobras, and a rhumba of rattlesnakes. They also have a parliament of owls and a congress of baboons, which I find insulting to baboons myself.
Abigail Roux
#79. Donald Trump you're never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency.
Carly Fiorina
#80. Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
Anthony Trollope
#81. Every time we make jokes about how jologs someone's school is, we are not insulting the poor student's intellectual abilities but their parents' financial capacity.
Lourd Ernest H. De Veyra
#82. 'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.
Judith Martin
#83. Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world ... if you do so, you are insulting yourself.
Bill Gates
#84. Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.
Oscar Wilde
#85. Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.
Thomas A Kempis
#87. Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.
Donna Lynn Hope
#88. When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.
Revenge always escalates.
Rob Bell
#89. The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.
P. J. O'Rourke
#90. he leaves me alone after a kiss to the top of my head but not before I have the last word. "Tweedlewart." "What?" "You're a tweedlewart." "Is that supposed to be insulting, Tessie?" "It sounded a little bit more intimidating in my head.
Blair Holden
#91. You can't spend months insulting almost every group imaginable and then expect everyone to suddenly sing kumbaya together.
Kevin James Shay
#92. It was an odd bit of doggerel. First the flame and then the flood, in the end it's Blackthorn blood.
Cassandra Clare
#93. You're better than I am.'
Damen couldn't help his amused breath of reaction to that, or the long, scrolling look from Laurent's head to his toes and back again, which was probably a little insulting. But really.
C.S. Pacat
#94. You can't get away with saying, 'If you try to stop me from insulting homosexuals it violates my freedom of prejudice.' But you can get away with saying, 'It violates my freedom of religion.' What, when you think about it, is the difference? Yet again, religion trumps all.
Richard Dawkins
#95. It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.
Vladimir Potanin
#96. When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God.
Sophia Bush
#97. This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that the best men were above the temptation of loving them, has been the source of unnumbered evils.
Annie Besant
#98. There's a lot of other [than Donald Trump] people that say things you may call insulting, but no one seems to care about that.
Joe Arpaio
#99. I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.
Gilles Marini
#100. I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.
Niccolo Machiavelli
