Top 100 Quotes About Insulting
#1. In popular culture, when women compete, it's usually over a man, and it's usually very nasty. And that is just frankly not my experience. That's just some kind of popular mythology, it feels like. I find it insulting.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#2. Present company excepted is such an elegantly insulting term, I think, given it clearly means present company especially. It's up there with with all due respect, meaning with no respect whatsoever.
Mhairi McFarlane
#3. I'll tell you one thing I learned from studying History, Kitty. As soon as you see your opponents are reduced to insulting you personally, you know you're on the way to victory.
Anne Fine
#4. With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname.
Cassandra Clare
#5. If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.
Ethan Canin
#6. Usually what everyone knows is insulting and sort of ableist, because the people who know everything always seem to think of themselves as being perfectly normal.
Mira Grant
#7. No one except Hollywood stars and very rich Texans wore Indian jewelry. And there was a plethora of dozens if not hundreds of athletic teams that in essence were insulting us, from grade schools to college. That's all changed.
Russell Means
#8. Women, it is said, are inferior, amoral, animal and satanic. In which case, being born is either insulting, or meaningless.
Patricia Storace
#9. I want to give a beautiful speech at the end of the world - a rousing and inspiring collection of thoughts expressed eloquently through a dying language that is ultimately too little too late; absurd and utterly meaningless - almost insulting as life burns away.
Jonathan Douglas Duran
#10. I'll teach you to dance."
She smiled. "Right here?"
"Absolutely."
"Are you going to sing for me as well?"
He sighed. "Have you ever heard a dog howl at the moon?"
"That bad, is it?"
"I'm probably insulting the dog.
Victoria Lynne
#11. People don't mind insulting the tall. We're supposed to be fine with being awkward and skinny. I'm very easy to psychoanalyse. I was a gangly, awkward teenager who could make people laugh and thought that was a way to be socially more comfortable.
Stephen Merchant
#12. He's unrepentant,' McClane pronounced, 'and insulting. And possibly suicidal. Can we kick him in the face?
J. Fally
#13. It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
Epictetus
#14. But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.
Helen Garner
#15. The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.
Wilma Scott Heide
#16. My brother and I both like sarcastic, insulting comedy, so that's a way we communicate. Somehow that's what we learned. My mom is not a really sarcastic person. She's a really sort of overly loving person, and my brother and I came out little cynical bastards.
Moshe Kasher
#17. Im not sure which is more insulting, being offered in a trade or having it turned down.
Claude Osteen
#18. I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.
Emmanuelle Beart
#19. Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
Evan Esar
#20. You're such a bastard," she sighed.
He chuckled. "Are you really insulting the man who just gave you an orgasm?
Elle Kennedy
#21. I'm always concerned that I'm insulting the elder statesmen on the set by my crass behavior.
Heather Langenkamp
#22. I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
Dustin Hoffman
#23. Don't count your wrongs, count your blessings and you shall not fail. Any human who calls himself a creature of God and does not count, many times during the day, the blessings but only counts what he doesn't have is insulting to God and to himself; he is a living non-reality.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#24. when someone dumps you, it's heartbreaking and insulting and horrible, sure, but being the one who breaks up is almost as bad.
Keren David
#25. The only time you seem honest is when you're insulting someone!"
"The only honest things I can say to you are insults.
Brandon Sanderson
#27. My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day?
Nora Roberts
#29. I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
Walter Kirn
#30. How do I know you're not a - a Mogadorian?" he asks.
"Malcolm, if you'd ever seen one of those bastards, you'd realize that's the most insulting question I've ever been asked.
Pittacus Lore
#31. I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.
Dennis Miller
#32. It was a little insulting to admit that a drooling dolt like Coulter might be right about something, but after all, Isaac Newton didn't reject gravity just because the apple had a low IQ.
Jeff Lindsay
#33. Music is worth doing just because. It doesn't have to be justified by some political point of view, and it's kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.
Elliott Smith
#34. Maybe you're not his type." Michael said
"Oh, now you're just being insulting.
Rachel Caine
#35. I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.'
Sophia Amoruso
#36. I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting - spreading rumors, disturbing the peace.
Bassem Youssef
#38. Sweetheart, insulting the spirits won't win them over. Most astrals aren't as masochistic as I am. - William Maddox
Jennifer DeLucy
#39. If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.
Dasha Zhukova
#40. Men like to chase and you have to let us chase you. I know. It's insulting. It's frustrating. It's unfortunately the truth.
Greg Behrendt
#41. We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from other countries.
Angela Merkel
#42. I am not well suited to the tasks that are set before me today. Most of what I must do is either insulting to my intelligence, or far beyond my capabilities. This explains why I am so frustrated and full of rage most of the time.
John S. Hall
#43. I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.
Mike Piazza
#44. Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#45. You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.
Ivan Van Sertima
#46. I guess I don't see what's so insulting about being called a girl. The two of you seem to do okay when you're not biting my head off or acting like five years old.
Alexandra Bracken
#47. Jesse Jackson also said he thought Barack Obama was talking down to black people by lecturing them on things like fatherhood and being a responsible husband. Jesse thought it was insulting, not only to him, but to his former mistress and their love child.
Jay Leno
#48. I've definitely been in situations where I could tell someone was interested in me, but I could tell they were insulting me in some passive/aggressive way, so I felt bad about myself at the same time.
Noah Baumbach
#49. Whenever he began to see me as something more than a liability or a weapon,
whenever we spoke to each other without the barrier of rank and history between us, he backed away, more often than not insulting me to force the distance. Merit - Chicagoland Vampires
Chloe Neill
#50. As picky as a woman with her shoes," Abraham grumbled.
"Hey," I said. "That's insulting." I knew plenty of women who were pickier with their guns than they were with their shoes.
Brandon Sanderson
#51. I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.
John Lennon
#52. You're about to meet the business end of my shotgun, comin' on McKay land and insulting me and mine.
Lorelei James
#53. Sometimes you have to lose a lot of Q-tips before you realize you have a hole in your head.
Colors Insulting To Nature
Cintra Wilson
#55. What's the matter? Afraid to come over here and fight a girl?"
"You are no girl," one of the soldiers yells.
"Now that is downright insulting." I squat down and pull daggers from my Doc Martens. "Looks like I'll have to defend my honor.
Tera Lynn Childs
#56. Master Nolan - Being angry at a sub because a scene goes bad or you don't get the response you want isn't the mark of a good Dom. And insulting a woman for any reason is the mark of an asshole.
Cherise Sinclair
#57. By making the choice to leave, you're insulting the place that raised you, and made you, and never turned you away. And that place fights you back.
Trevor Noah
#58. He was insulting her sex but complimenting her personally. Was she supposed to simper with gratitude?
Mary Balogh
#59. One participant got so angry after thinking about the insulting feedback that hitting the punching bag wasn't enough: he punched a hole in the wall of the lab.
Adam M. Grant
#60. To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting.
Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.
Michael Stipe
#62. Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
Judith Martin
#63. What would you do if you were President, and, on the first day of May, the Russian Ambassador presented you with a beautiful cake which emitted a curious ticking noise? Would you plunge it into a pail of water - thus insulting Soviet cuisine in general?
W.C. Fields
#64. Now leave. (Adron)
Why would I want to do that? I mean, heaven forbid I should be around someone who actually likes me. It's so much more fun to be here with you insulting my manhood and questioning my parentage every five seconds. (Tiernan)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#65. If you don't speak Spanish, then don't accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.
Luis Suarez
#66. If the size of your vision for your life isn't intimidating to you, there's a good chance it's insulting to God.
Steven Furtick
#67. We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.
Robert Scheer
#68. When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.
Gautama Buddha
#69. They are stupid, aren't they?" Dr. Orwell agreed, as though they were talking about the weather instead of insulting young children.
Lemony Snicket
#70. This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas - because they simply don't know about its existence or they don't know how it operates.
Peter York
#71. We are insulting God by constantly depending and looking forward for miracles.
Sunday Adelaja
#72. Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.
John Podhoretz
#74. A true friend is not angry when you insult. Instead they think of more insulting words to you.
Sphencer Perales
#75. I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they are sorry for themselves. Self-pity is the biggest stumbling block in our world today.
~Jessop
Agatha Christie
#76. Yeah- in between insulting someone's mother and taking the Lord's name in vain, he said, 'Bet you're glad she loves Cullen instead of me today, huh, Charlie?
Stephenie Meyer
#77. No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.
Janet Jackson
#78. People always want to compare their dogs to having kids. That's insulting. First of all, nobody has a dog because they were too drunk to pull out.
Greg Giraldo
#79. Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head.
Eddie DeChooch
Janet Evanovich
#80. To admonish is better than to reproach for admonition is mild and friendly, but reproach is harsh and insulting; and admonition corrects those who are doing wrong, but reproach only convicts them.
Epictetus
#81. Pretty soon you're not going to be able to understand me. I'll be so smart that you'll have no idea I'm insulting you. I chuck my empty box at her. I miss again.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#82. There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
Billy Eichner
#83. I still find it interesting that there could be a point between a young guy and a girl when they decide to hold hands as they walk down the block. At some point, they decide to make the leap from pushing and insulting each other to doing something tender and possessive and showing the world that.
Amy Heckerling
#84. You don't have any balls?' For once I wasn't trying to be insulting.
Chantal Halpin
#85. I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.
Tracey Ullman
#86. I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.
John Howard
#87. I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.
Charlie Kaufman
#88. A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.
Michael Leunig
#89. When I moved, the broker had told me there was something good for the brain about living near the sea, something about ions. But I often felt like the water was insulting me, like, I'm beautiful and endless - what are you doing with your life?
Anna North
#90. Don't be ridiculous, please.'
The most insulting words in the world!
L.M. Montgomery
#91. Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.
Molly Ringle
#92. I think I like 'mundane' better than 'bloodsucker,'" Simon muttered.
"With Jace, you don't really get to choose your insulting nickname."
-Simon and Clary, pg.234-
Cassandra Clare
#93. Would have to make sure this guy never met Sadie. They'd probably take turns insulting me for the rest of eternity. A little help here?
Rick Riordan
#94. I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.
Christopher Paolini
#95. I glare at him. 'As a figment of my imagination, I demand you stop insulting me.' I press my fingernails into the grooves of the bite-marks again and shut my eyes. 'And go away.
Elizabeth May
#96. I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.
Benjamin Watson
#97. I don't mind personal insults, but when you insult the jokes that I tell you're insulting Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Burns and Allen, Trevor McGee and Molly Picon.
Milton Berle
#98. You are not capable of insulting, even in thought, her who so loved and so loves you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#99. Who's calling?"
"Don't insult me like that," the voice says.
I stop. Was I just insulting?
Peter Hedges
#100. I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.
Chuck Schumer
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