Quotes of Insult - somelinesforyou

“ It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking. ”

- Epictetus

“ The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. ”

- Bible

“ I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Frederick Douglass

“ Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be. ”

- Pierre Corneille

“ Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. ”

- Cordel Hull

“ A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. ”

- Louis Nizer

“ Being bored is an insult to oneself. ”

- Jules Renard

“ Envy is an insult to oneself. ”

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“ Even rabbits insult an dead lion. ”

- Unknown

“ If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved. ”

- Russell Lynes

“ Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. ”

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

“ No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute. ”

- Paul Gallico

“ Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. ”

- Lawrence Durrell

“ Oppression is more easily endured than insult. ”

- Junius

“ Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ The best way to procure insults is to submit to them. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved. ”

- Russell Lynes

“ There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. ”

- Sinclair Lewis

“ You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult. ”

- Judge Hall

“ Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering. ”

- Cesare Pavese

“ We don't want to miss anybody or slight anybody. ”

- Bob Anderson

“ Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed. ”

- George Chapman

“ It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. ”

- Alan Dershowitz

“ Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin. ”

- Philip Massinger
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