There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
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A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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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.
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He who puts up with insult invites injury.
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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.
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Insults should be well avenged or well endured.
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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.
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There are two insults no human being will endure that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble.
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Slander expires at a good woman's door.
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We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
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It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
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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?
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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.
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A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
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Even rabbits insult an dead lion.
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Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.
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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.
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
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It is easy to forgive an insult, but harder to forget one.
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