Quotes by category:Insulting

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.

Niccolo Machiavelli

insulting men enemy

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

Norman Finkelstein

insulting focus hard-work

Insulting the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) is like trying to spit at the sun, it will only come back in your face.

Nouman Ali Khan

insulting faces trying

If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yapt... by O. Henry

If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

insulting ifs new-york

Life is too short to learn German by Oscar Wilde

Life is too short to learn German

german-language insulting life

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

insulting sin thinking

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

england insulting art

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

insulting sometimes men

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

insulting political want

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

insulting people thinking

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

insulting mother america

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

rude insulting inspirational

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils th... by Paul Valery

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

insulting evil people

People feel that building a rocket for Mars is an exciting project, but if you see the refugees around the world and the millions of homeless people, then for me it's insulting that people are fantasizing about leaving planet Earth and going wherever.

leaving insulting people

This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas - because they simply don't know about its existence or they don't know how it operates.

insulting sound people

She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.

Portia de Rossi

insults-you insulting giving

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerit... by Quentin Crisp

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

insulting religion thinking

What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are being obstructionist for wanting to see documents, for wanting to see a paper trail, for wanting to get questions answered in the judiciary committee hearings, and now all of a sudden, the Republicans want those things for this.

insulting paper people

Maybe you're not his type." Michael said "Oh, now you're just bei... by Rachel Caine

Maybe you're not his type." Michael said "Oh, now you're just being insulting.

just-being type insulting

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

insulting doe world

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