Quotes
Quotes about Insult
Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]
No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult. [Ger., Kein Heiligthum heisst uns den Schimpf ertragen.]
What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi, Injuriae qui addideris contumeliam?]
If you speak insults you will hear them also. [Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.]
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.]
The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.
You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.
Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sureâthat is all that agnosticism means.
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings? - Craftmanship in Teaching.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing â a vice little known heretofore in the American army â is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect 'that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly.'
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.
