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• A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

  Frederick Douglass

  Topics in Insult

  Tags in Gentleman

• To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries.

  Mitch McConnell

  Topics in Insult

  Tags in Call, Recovery

• To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Topics in Insult

  Tags in Fools, Books

• The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

  Isabel Allende

  Topics in Insult

  Tags in People, Books, Serious, Writer, Great, Angry, Little

• Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

  Edouard Manet

  Topics in Insult

• Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Topics in Insult, Life

  Tags in Economic

• 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

  Topics in Insult, Uncategorized

  Tags in Leave, Judge

• To say ‘we’ and mean ‘I’ is one of the most recondite insults.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Insult

  Tags in Say, Most, Mean

• I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Topics in Insult, Intelligence

• Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

  Aesop

  Topics in Insult

• To persevere in one’s duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.

  George Washington

  Topics in Insult

  Tags in Calumny

• There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Topics in Insult

• We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

  Mason Cooley

  Topics in Insult

  Tags in Compliments

• Do not insult the crocodile until you’ve crossed the river.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs, Insult

• Adding just kidding doesn’t make it okay to insult the Principal.

  Nancy Cartwright

  Topics in Insult

  Tags in Kidding

• Never insult anyone by accident.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Topics in Insult

  Tags in Accident

• I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

  Josephine Baker

  Topics in Insult

  Tags in Nicely

• To insult someone we call him “bestial.” For deliberate cruelty and nature, “human” might be the greater insult.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Insult

  Tags in Deliberate

• 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

  Topics in Insult

  Tags in Absorbed

• The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I’ve got to eat everything on the plate, whether it’s good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Topics in Insult

  Tags in Plate, Bad people