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Quote Left There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble Quote Right
Quote Left The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting -- the war and the revolution -- and the character of the accused -- revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power -- you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history. Quote Right
Quote Left If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey. Quote Right
Quote Left I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present. Quote Right
Quote Left The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the knee plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent? Quote Right
Quote Left A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. Quote Right
Quote Left A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. Quote Right
Quote Left Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left They say verbal insults hurt more then physical pain. They are of course wrong, as you will soon find out when I put this toasting fork in your head. Quote Right
Quote Left If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks. Quote Right
Quote Left It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. Quote Right
Quote Left President Clinton says in this month’s 'Esquire' that he wants the Republicans who spoke against him during the impeachment to apologize to him. But the Republicans today said those were oral insults, and under Clinton’s logic, an oral insult is not really an insult. Quote Right
Quote Left He who puts up with insult invites injury. Quote Right
Quote Left A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. Quote Right
Quote Left Insults should be well avenged or well endured. Quote Right
Quote Left Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible. Quote Right
Quote Left There are two insults no human being will endure that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble. Quote Right
Quote Left Slander expires at a good woman's door. Quote Right
Quote Left We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. Quote Right
Quote Left It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. Quote Right
Quote Left Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt? Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. Quote Right
Quote Left Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. Quote Right
Quote Left Even rabbits insult an dead lion. Quote Right
Quote Left Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised. Quote Right
Quote Left It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you. Quote Right
Quote Left In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. Quote Right
Quote Left It is easy to forgive an insult, but harder to forget one. Quote Right
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Member Quotes About Insults

Quote Left Anyone who insults another's parenting clearly wasn't raised properly Quote Right
Quote Left The deeper one insults the shallower we become... Quote Right
Quote Left I am a good swimmer. But even the best swimmer can drown in the insults of the words people speak. Quote Right

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