Insults Quotes

Being told you are wrong or insulted, gives you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

YOUNG MORTIMER:Thou proud disturber of thy country's peace,Corrupter of thy king, cause of these broils,Base flatterer, yield! and were it not for shame,Shame and dishonour to a soldier's name,Upon my weapon's point here should'st thou fall,And welter in thy gore.LANCASTER:Monster of men!That, like the Greekish strumpet, train'd to armsAnd bloody wars so many valiant knights;Look for no other fortune, wretch, than death!King Edward is not here to buckler thee.

~ Christopher Marlowe

How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!

~ Alexandre Dumas

No more Keats, I entreat: flay him alive; if some of you don’t I must skin him myself: there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin.

~ George Gordon Byron

See!” Dad yelled. “Boys don’t stay with whores, Bianca. They leave them. And I’m not going to let you turn into a whore. Not my daughter. This is for your own good.”I looked up as he reached a hand down to grab my arm. I squeezed my eyes shut, waiting to feel his fingers clamp around my forearm.But they never did.I heard a loud thud, and Dad grunted in pain. My eyes flew open. Wesley moved away from Dad, who was massaging his jaw with a shocked look on his face. “Why you little shithead!”“Are you all right?” Wesley asked, kneeling in front of me.“Did you just punch my dad?” I couldn’t help but wonder if I was delirious. Had all of this really just happened? Totally bizarre.“Yes,” Wesley admitted.“How dare you touch me!” Dad screamed, but he was having trouble balancing enough to approach us again. “How dare you fuck my daughter, then hit me, you son of a bitch!”I’d never heard my father swear like that before.“Come on,” Wesley said, helping me to my feet. “Let’s get out of here. You’re coming with me.” He wrapped an arm around me, pulling me close against his warm body, and ushered me out the open door.

~ Kody Keplinger

Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop.

~ Norman Mailer

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.(on Ernest Hemingway

~ William Faulkner

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

~ Evelyn Waugh

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

~ Ruth Rendell

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

~ Virginia Woolf

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

~ D.h. Lawrence

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

~ Noël Coward

There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York. (on Tom Wolfe)

~ Norman Mailer

An idiot child screaming in a hospital. (on George Bernard Shaw)

~ H.g. Wells

All raw, uncooked, protesting.(on Aldous Huxley)

~ Virginia Woolf

[Francesca] 'You really are a few biscuits short of breakfast.'His eyebrows furrowed in confusion.'You're a few colors shy of a rainbow?' she offered. 'Not pulling a full wagon? Knitting with only one needle? All foam and no beer? Your cheese slid off the cracker? You couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel?'[Nicodemus] 'All right. I get it.

~ Blake Charlton

...the only thing that could justify your continuing existence on the planet would be if you started breathing carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen.

~ Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

She may be crazy but at least she isn't you.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

~ William Shakespeare

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

~ William Shakespeare

They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.

~ William Shakespeare

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

~ Oscar Wilde

Right before the game, she strolled up to me. Hey, Seaweed Brain.Will you stop calling me that?She knows I hate that name, mostly because I never have a good comeback. She's the daughter of Athena, which doesn't give me a lot of ammunition. I mean, Owl-head and Wise Girl are kind of lame insults.

~ Rick Riordan

Sir, no insult intended, but you said to me once that you don’t like kiss-asses and that you’d rather work with people challenging your perceptions.

~ Mario Stinger

That's what you think of me, is it, girl? said his lordship, a glint in his

~ Georgette Heyer

. . . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.

~ Brendan Behan

Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten.

~ Aesop

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

~ Norman Douglas

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

~ Margot Asquith

Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny.

~ William Shakespeare

A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a horse still.

~ Samuel Johnson

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

~ Diogenes

To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.

~ George Washington

Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you.

~ Bible

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts Old age is slow in both.

~ Joseph Addison

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

~ Thomas Fuller

It takes your enemy and your friend working together to hurt you to the heart the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

~ Mark Twain