It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. — Seneca The Elder
Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter. — Zane Grey
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. — Louis Nizer
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. — Moli
Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion. — George Washington
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him. — George Herbert
If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it. — Shams Tabrizi
Short Insults Quotes
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. — Walt Whitman
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality. — Anton Chekhov
If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you. — Bill Russell
I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy. — Rick Riordan
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. — Marilyn Monroe
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon. — Johannes Brahms
Dismiss whatever insults your soul. — Walt Whitman
Don’t add insult to injury. — American Proverbs
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Insults Image Quotes
If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you. — Sufyan al-Thawri
Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world... if you do so, you are insulting yourself.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. — Edmond de Goncourt
I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner? — Frank Zappa
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Insult Quotes
When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence. — Nouman Ali Khan
I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other. — Virginia Satir
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. — Liu Xiaobo
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality
I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them. — John Wayne
I don't like what you`re doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today — Tariq Ramadan
You English are like mad bulls... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as is unworthy of a great nation. I regard this as a personal insult... You make it uncommonly difficult for a man to remain friendly to England. — Wilhelm II
If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this? — Iyanla Vanzant
You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered. — Ivan van Sertima
When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you. — Buddha
[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. — Groucho Marx
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe. — Frederic Bastiat
I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do the broads come on?" I got good at saying, "Relax. Clear your skin up first." They called me "the insult guy," but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life. — Don Rickles
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
People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less — Bill Walsh
We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . . Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. . . . His presence here is . . . an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be allowed for corn? — Red Cloud
The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees. — Enver Hoxha
Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. — William Lloyd Garrison
When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult. — James Meredith
Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate. — Wayne Dyer
The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding. — Peter Joseph
Goat face is a horrible insult. My face is practically perfect in every way. In fact, from now on I demand to be called Beautiful Bryan. — Daniel Bryan
You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your God. This is the most disgusting dogma of Christian religion, the greatest insult to the Highest Being, the climax of madness and insanity. — Frederick the Great
Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be. — John Smith
Progressives consider it laudable to criticize, mock, or insult all religious beliefs – except for the one untouchable faith. To attack Islam in the West is 'Islamophobic,' 'racist,' and 'bigoted.' — Gad Saad
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind. — James Meredith
If the size of your vision for your life isn't intimidating to you, there's a good chance it's insulting to God. — Steven Furtick
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