Insulting Quotations | Page 2

To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.

He does not have my class.

I made two mistakes at the beginning of the season. But I saw Manuel Almunia making mistakes as well, so sometimes you don't know what the thoughts of the coach are.'

He takes himself far too seriously and thinks he is very important. I don't like it when someone glorifies themself.

I do not have a 24-year-old girlfriend. I have another life altogether.

They know how to play well but they do not know how to go through a whole tournament. We have been there and done it. They haven't.

Lampard is a specialist in insulting people very badly.

My coach confirmed to me my impression that he uses a different measuring stick to evaluate Almunia. For me, this was a huge disappointment. That has forced me to think about my situation. I have to ask myself what is still realistic and possible for me at Arsenal? When Wenger says something like that, it's going to be difficult for me to get back in here. It's very frustrating. When I see the performances on the field, I get angry and I have to clench my fist in my pocket.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.

He began to insult me. After the game as I returned to the changing rooms he appeared to be waiting for me, started insulting me again, and slapped me.

And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.

Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head." Eddie DeChooch

I think I like ‘mundane’ better than ‘bloodsucker,’” Simon muttered. “With Jace, you don’t really get to choose your insulting nickname.” -Simon and Clary, pg.234-

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

Donald Trump you're never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency.

I don't mind personal insults, but when you insult the jokes that I tell you're insulting Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Burns and Allen, Trevor McGee and Molly Picon.

God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less. If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.

I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.

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.

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.

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?

To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.

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.

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.

Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.

Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's opponents and her critics would like to see her leave the public square by insulting, degrading, demeaning, abusing and ridiculing her, and - by pretending that she has nothing to say.

These forums are insulting and laughable, given that we're dealing with an administration hellbent on placing these terminals wherever the industry sees fit.

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.

And such remarks, wherever they come from, are insulting and offensive to all of us.

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

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

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.

She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappropriate future moment.

Men like to chase and you have to let us chase you. I know. It's insulting. It's frustrating. It's unfortunately the truth.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

There's a lot of other [than Donald Trump] people that say things you may call insulting, but no one seems to care about that.

Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!

It's always more interesting when you're doing things with someone you like because you're much more open to suggesting things. Also, it's fun. It's like if you're sitting with your mates and you're bantering, or you're winding each other up and insulting each other in a playful way, but having fun with it.

The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.

Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.

In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!

Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.

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

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.

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

I think you can be politically incorrect, but there's some responsibility with that. You've got to make sure that you are not condoning or bolstering any racial or other stereotypes. You've got to be free to make jokes, but just make sure...you don't want to go and black face somewhere to just prove a point. If it's insulting and offensive just for the sake of it that's problematic.

You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket. But you will keep your gentleness and your smile. It is not enough to give soup and bread. This the rich can do. You are the servant of the poor, always smiling and good-humored. They are your masters, terribly sensitive and exacting master you will see. And the uglier and the dirtier they will be, the more unjust and insulting, the more love you must give them. It is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give to them.

The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

You’ve got to have a little more confidence in us than that. It’s insulting.

... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.

When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

You'd much rather act with a pal, someone you know really well. That way, you can cut all the niceties and go right to insulting each other.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

How would you like to feel the way she looks

The English are the people of consummate cant.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.

It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

Life is too short to learn German

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

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.

Thirty millions, mostly fools.

A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be grateful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.

One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else

All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.