264 Quotes About Insults

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]

You decline?” he cried, almost defiantly. “ `Decline’ isn’t the word. A man doesn’t decline an insult.

Not knowing humiliation, you are ignorant of what it is to arrive at the last stage of yourself.

Yet Trump has managed to convince his legions that making vile comments about someone is a revolutionary act, a badge of honor and a long-overdue tipping of society's scales back toward reason and truth. Sometimes he's right, but so is the proverbial stopped watch.

It's funny how, when you really want to say something bitchy and cutting to someone who's been bitchy to you, you can't think of anything till afterwards. When there's no real call for it, you come suddenly out with a piece of 9-carat bitchery that shakes even you.

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.

...weak of spine and flaccid of upper lip.

Teeth gritted, he gazed down at me. "Now that I come to think about it. I'm not real keen on your eye color, either. What do you call that shade of green? Fungus?

He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very special occasions, which this wasn’t.) But he described our shortcomings, physical, mental, moral, and genetic, in great and insulting detail.But somehow I was not insulted; I became greatly interested in studying his command of language. I wished that we had had him on our debate team.