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Envy is an insult to oneself.
Author:
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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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.
Author:
George Washington
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To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back.
Author:
Dominique Swain
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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Author:
Patricia Spacks
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.
Author:
Sydney Schanberg
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People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.
Author:
Winona Ryder
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I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.
Author:
Robert Purvis
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The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.
Author:
Paul Prudhomme
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Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.
Author:
Daniel Pipes
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
Author:
Ferdinand Mount
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I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.
Author:
Toni Morrison
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If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
Author:
Russell Lynes
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
Author:
Tanith Lee
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Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
Author:
David Lawrence
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Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
Author:
Junius
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Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
Author:
Cordell Hull
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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Author:
Claud-Adrian Helvetius
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Never insult anyone by accident.
Author:
Robert Heinlein
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There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
Author:
John Haldane
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Author:
Edmond Goncourt
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Author:
Stephen Fry
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
Author:
Suzanne Fields
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Author:
Frederick Douglass
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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 sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
Author:
Clarence Darrow
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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
Author:
Margaret Cho
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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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Adding "just kidding" doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Author:
Nancy Cartwright
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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
Author:
William Buckley, Jr.
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I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
Author:
Josephine Baker
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I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.
Author:
Kevyn Aucoin
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To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.
Author:
Isaac Asimov
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Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
Author:
James Adams
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
Author:
Edward Abbey
