Insults Quotes

Quotes tagged as "insults" Showing 301-330 of 338
Leigh Bardugo
“Tell me, priest,' I ordered, 'or I'll cut you open right here, and your followers can try to pray you back together.”
Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

Jean-Paul Sartre
“Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.”
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Flies

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues. If the words from the mouth of an abusive man makes you angry, quit the whole arena and you'll discover he had got his mouth shut.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Nenia Campbell
“We both want you dead. I'm bringing the friendship bracelets to the next meeting.”
Nenia Campbell, Armed and Dangerous

Melina Marchetta
“So plunge that fact into your conscience and allow it to rotate for a while. Until it hurts.”
Melina Marchetta, Froi of the Exiles

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Patricia Briggs
“You don’t have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.”
Patricia Briggs, Hunting Ground

Wayne Gerard Trotman
“Wretched are those preoccupied with insulting, belittling and discrediting others.”
Wayne Gerard Trotman

Cormac McCarthy
“She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake”
Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

Donna Lynn Hope
“When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them.”
Donna Lynn Hope

Donna Lynn Hope
“Is it me you're describing, or yourself?”
Donna Lynn Hope

Molly Ringle
“Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.”
Molly Ringle, What Scotland Taught Me

Peter S. Beagle
“All right, all right for you, you pretentious kneecap! How would you like a punch in the eye?”
Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

Nenia Campbell
“Go make love to a tube sock.”
Nenia Campbell, Black Beast

Donna Lynn Hope
“If someone calls you a failure it's more than likely they feel like one.”
Donna Lynn Hope

“You’d put our parents at risk for some piece of tail?” Ghleanna demanded.

“She saved my life.”

“You can fight your own battles!”

“Not when I’m knocked out on my ass!”

“You mean knocked out on your fat ass!”

“My ass, like the rest of me, is perfection!”
G.A. Aiken, A Tale of Two Dragons

Brian K. Vaughan
“Natalya: "It was our favorite sister of NASA who guilt me into putting my tits on line to rescuing you helpless ornaments.”
Brian K. Vaughan, Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Five

Aaron Copland
“Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.”
Aaron Copland

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Jamie Holoran
“You see this?’ she wanted to say to him; ‘this tasteless glob of half-masticated rubbery gunk? Well this is the same level as you, maybe higher.”
Jamie Holoran, Rounder's People

Paul Collins
“Curb your fretting, tadpole, or the frog of your future will fail to croak.'
-Thaddeus”
Paul Collins, Dragonsight

Nathaniel Hawthorne
“You are my evil spirit, you and the hard, coarse world! The leaden thoughts and the despondency that you fling upon me are my clogs, else I should long ago have achieved the task that I was created for.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse

Brian K. Vaughan
“Christ, I walk through an inferno unscatched, then singe my ass on the flight back."

[...]

"You guys are the ... the heart and brain of the Great Machine."

"Yeah? Then you're the inflamed anus."

"You're not the brain, by the way.”
Brian K. Vaughan, Ex Machina, Vol. 1: The First Hundred Days

Vladimir Nabokov
“The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.”
Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Louise Penny
“Now she sat in front of him, nearly submerged under layers of thick sweaters and blankets. She looked like a laundry hamper without a head.”
Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

Israelmore Ayivor
“Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session; you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer.”
Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“[As part of Camus' refusal to debate his political enemies publicly after their vitriolic responses to the publication of 'The Rebel'] At this point, the least sentence I might say will be used in a way that disgusts me in advance. ... It would be impossible for me in that case to continue expressing myself with academic politeness. I am mistaken for a deliberately polite man whom one may insult in all safety.”
Olivier Todd, Albert Camus: A Life

Mark   Mills
“After a few minutes there was a click on the line and a voice said in Farsi,"Goh Benares roo gahbret."
This roughly translated as: "May shit rain down upon your grave."
"Goozidam too chesmet," Tom replied.
"I fart in your eye.”
Mark Mills, House of the Hunted

Donna Lynn Hope
“You're not interesting in the least," she spat. "I don't need to be," I smiled. "That's what you need...And you're welcome to it.”
Donna Lynn Hope