264 Quotes About Insults

[Jerome] is a man quite without either judgment or application.

This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.

A prince is venison in heaven.

It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical transition, he drags us who knew nothing of rhetoric away with him, as if the matter at issue here were of no moment, but simply a lot of quibbling, and dashes bravely out of the crowded court, crowned with ivy and laurel.

When you tolerate disrespectful people you disrespect yourself.

She's going to UCLA in the fall to major in psychology, and I guess after that she'll be more revolting than ever.

Pało z kośći słoniowej, zwieciadło bezmyślności, pustynio egipska rozumu, komedio idiotyczna, wieżo z garnkiem zamiast głowy(...)ty, który byłbyś geniuszem, gdybyś nie był karykaturą rozumu, bądź błogosławiony!

Paul had the impression he often had in the United Kingdom, of having just been subtly insulted in an obscure way that would take too much energy to parse, and as always he couldn't tell if the insult was real or just a typically Canadian case of postcolonial insecurity.

Rubbish," he said. "Firstly, stop talking as if you did anything but what I wanted. Secondly--well, you're a slippery bastard, granted. You've made plenty of mistakes and done a lot of bad things and told an incredible number of lies. You're an utter shit. Sorry, what was I saying? I got carried away.