Quotes about Insult
You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!
- William Golding
she was the dumbest bitch on the planet.
- Toni Morrison
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
- Milan Kundera
I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
- JRR Tolkien
It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
- Oswald Chambers
Did he insult you? I mean us, the race? Not directly. Like most white racists, he was paternalistic. I would have preferred he slap me than that he talk down upon me. Then I could retaliate in kind.
- Maya Angelou
We insult God by speaking to Him with our lips while our hearts are far from Him.
- Billy Graham
Peter said: "If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you" (1 Peter 4:14).
- Billy Graham
That boy's so dumb he couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were on the bottom.
- Bill Clinton
When a man or woman is truly honest (not just working at it) it is virtually impossible to insult them personally. There is nothing there to insult. Those who were truly ready for the kingdom were just such people. Their inner poverty of spirit and rigorous honesty had set them free. They were people who had nothing to be proud of.
- Brennan Manning
Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other;
- Herman Melville
In an oligarchy it is necessary to take great care of the poor, and allot them public employments which are gainful; and, if any of the rich insult them, to let their punishment be severer than if they insulted one of their own rank;
- Aristotle