264 Quotes About Insults

He didn't think it possible to sign sewage-sucking-excuse-of-a-baseborn-bilge-rat but somehow Gurn managed.

I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.

Talking with the mouth of a beast won't ease your pain.

• …transferring her hunger to eat into a hunger to hurt. He didn’t turn round. She knew she should let it go, but it was too late. She’d chewed the insult over, torn it apart and swallowed it. The insult was part of her now.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.

Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.

I am reading Henry James… and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

Mr. Kipling stands for everything in this cankered world which I would wish were otherwise.