27 Quotes About Put-downs

The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.

Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of findingperfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won'tbe disappointed.

You are mean because inside you’re tiny. So tiny you cannot hold up the weight of your own body. You must inflate your ego just to fill the skin. You float around like a helium balloon. Blown up and bloated and gassy and empty.

What he lacks in intelligence he makes up for with ego.

I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.

Your perfume. . .' His tone held a faint hint of surprise. 'I'd somehow expected you to wear something more. . .sultry. I don't recognize this fragrance.''It's new," Courtenay said tersely. 'It's called Get Lost. You've probably never encountered it before.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

[Jean Harlow] 'Say - aren't you Margot Asquith?' (pronouncing the hard 't')[Margot Asquith] 'Yes Dear, But the 't' is silent, as in Harlow.

I'm not sure I've turned your Commander inside out, but I can assure you if that iron skillet was empty, I would bring him down a peg or two.