Insult Quotes (142 Quotes)


    This great man to whom the entire nation bows in respect is being used as a brand ambassador for eggs. This is an insult to Mahatma Gandhi and his principles and the Congress will not tolerate it.



    Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein by gestures int

    A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation -- a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.


    This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.

    This is not a satisfactory response. Let's not call it that, ... It's an insult to the people who are in hospitals. Doctors and health professionals, nurses and the rest who are making enormous sacrifices need it to be much more done sooner.




    Oh little Cody Pomeray if there had been some way to send a cry to you even when you were too little to know what utterances and cries are for in this dark sad earth, with your terrors in a world so malign and inhospitable, and all the insults from heaven ramming down to crowd your head with anger, pain, disgrace, worst of all the crapulous poverty in and out of every splintered door of days, if someone could have said to you then, and made you perceive, Fear life, but don't die you're alone, everybody's alone. Oh Cody Pomeray, you can't win, you can't lose, all is ephemeral, all is hurt.

    We kill each other, ... Black men are in pain, and, in some cases, black men are reacting to years of institutional racism and chronic habitual insults. But its how we react to that pain thats a concern. This is a major issue in our community.

    Reached by phone, National Interest co-publisher Dimitri Simes returned the insults. Years ago, he predicted the end of history, which proved to be somewhat premature, ... If somebody expects they will build their magazine at the expense of the National Interest, those hopes, I'm certain, will also be premature.

    I realized that one gets nowhere unless one talks to people about the things they know. The nave person does not appreciate what an insult it is to talk to one's fellows about anything that is unknown to them. They pardon such ruthless behavior only in a writer, journalist or poet.


    These stock option grants are an insult and add injury in a market of skyrocketing healthcare costs in America ... we find this intolerable and unsustainable.

    It will be nice when he returns. Any team would like him in the lineup. But we've been focusing on winning games, and other guys are playing. It would be an insult to them to be thinking of him.


    I took it as an insult. I mean, they come in and they tell us that. Some people didn't have us in the top 60. I mean, that's something. I kind of liked it, having our backs up against the wall, people telling us something we can't do, and we go out there and prove them wrong.



    State laws on domestic and sexual violence fall significantly short of Mexico's international human rights obligations. The definition of incest as voluntary sex is an insult to the thousands of girls who suffer abuse daily. No one, and least of all girls raped and impregnated by their fathers or brothers, should be forced to carry a pregnancy to term.

    I'm not intending to imply insult or judgment here but I am curious to know in order to be able to respond to your posts in an appropriatemanner, so please forgive what appears to be, but in fact is not intended as, an insulting question Are you stupid.

    The proposal is an insult to all people who want to have democracy as early as possible. If we support the government, it would be a complete betrayal to our voters.


    I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is gone forever.







    I want to say to the children of the difficult neighborhoods Whatever their origin, they are all daughters and sons of the republic, ... We will construct nothing durable without respect. We will construct nothing durable if we allow the growth, wherever they originate, of racism, insults, abuse. We will construct nothing if we do not combat the poison to society that is discrimination.

    I think her concern about the representation of her class as not accurate is certainly legitimate, ... I don't think the overall impression of the show is in any way an insult to her or the rest of the faculty.

    If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.




    It is important to make it quite clear that our society and the government defend freedom of expression. However, the deep sense of insult felt by Muslims around the world is a reminder that freedom of the press must be accompanied by responsibility and respect.

    A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.


    Their purpose in life is to capture the enemy, bring it to the lymph node -- the command center -- and present it to the general, the T cell, to activate a battle plan. It's a very efficient system that has allowed us to survive many insults, pathogens and viruses.


    We've urged the government of Denmark to take necessary steps to stop recurrence of such heinous act. We also requested them to tender apology to diffuse the sense of insult and anger created following the incident.



    The selection of these actors portraying foul-mouthed, drug-using, petty criminals as representative of East Coast music is ludicrous at best and an insult to every music-loving Canadian in general, and East Coasters in particular.



    It is apparent that they never had any intention of applying filters, the bare minimum they needed to continue to operate the system. Their response is an insult to the court, the public and all artists whose work is being illegally traded on the system.



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