Insults Quotes

“Shut your cake hole, you revolting young blot.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“Just because it's the truth doesn't make it less insulting.”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

“...the only thing that could justify your continuing existence on the planet would be if you started breathing carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen.”
― Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

“See!” Dad yelled. “Boys don’t stay with whores, Bianca. They leave them. And I’m not going to let you turn into a whore. Not my daughter. This is for your own good.”
I looked up as he reached a hand down to grab my arm. I squeezed my eyes shut, waiting to feel his fingers clamp around my forearm.
But they never did.
I heard a loud thud, and Dad grunted in pain. My eyes flew open. Wesley moved away from Dad, who was massaging his jaw with a shocked look on his face. “Why you little shithead!”
“Are you all right?” Wesley asked, kneeling in front of me.
“Did you just punch my dad?” I couldn’t help but wonder if I was delirious. Had all of this really just happened? Totally bizarre.
“Yes,” Wesley admitted.
“How dare you touch me!” Dad screamed, but he was having trouble balancing enough to approach us again. “How dare you fuck my daughter, then hit me, you son of a bitch!”
I’d never heard my father swear like that before.
“Come on,” Wesley said, helping me to my feet. “Let’s get out of here. You’re coming with me.” He wrapped an arm around me, pulling me close against his warm body, and ushered me out the open door.”
― Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults dictionary, which I stole.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“Gods curse it, Kel, you heard what he said!"
"I heard a fart," Kel said grimly. You know where those come from. Let it go." -Faleron and Kel”
― Tamora Pierce, Page

“Ball?” said one of the Pistons with interest. “We like balls.”
Dimity gave them her best, most haughty look. “Yes, but are you certain they like you?”
― Gail Carriger, Etiquette & Espionage

“You decline?” he cried, almost defiantly. “ `Decline’ isn’t the word. A man doesn’t decline an insult.”
― Henry James, Watch and Ward

“Richard had long ago made it clear that he viewed medical students as nothing more than an annoyance. Part canker, part pustule, we functioned – were he ever so generous to use that word – as vestigial organs, adding to the team like supernumerary nipples.”
― David Z. Hirsch, Didn't Get Frazzled: humorous medical fiction

“Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]”
― Samuel Johnson

“Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“That's what you think of me, is it, girl?" said his lordship, a glint in his eyes.

"Oh, no!" she responded, dropping him a curtsy. "It's what I say, sir! You must know that my featherheaded Mama has taught me to behave with all the propriety in the world! To tell you what I think of you would be to sink myself quite below reproach!”
― Georgette Heyer, The Unknown Ajax

“Not knowing humiliation, you are ignorant of what it is to arrive at the last stage of yourself.”
― E M Cioran

“There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very special occasions, which this wasn’t.) But he described our shortcomings, physical, mental, moral, and genetic, in great and insulting detail.
But somehow I was not insulted; I became greatly interested in studying his command of language. I wished that we had had him on our debate team.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“You, sir, are an idiot! Your father was an idiot! Your grandfather was an idiot! And while I’ve never met your great grandfather, I’m sure that he was an idiot too since idiocy like yours is so incredibly vast that it can’t possibly be due to just the environment. It would need a strong genetic determinant since no environment could ever produce an idiot as big as you!”
― L.G. Estrella, The Galactic Peace Committee

“Yet Trump has managed to convince his legions that making vile comments about someone is a revolutionary act, a badge of honor and a long-overdue tipping of society's scales back toward reason and truth. Sometimes he's right, but so is the proverbial stopped watch.”
― Kathleen Parker

“It's funny how, when you really want to say something bitchy and cutting to someone who's been bitchy to you, you can't think of anything till afterwards. When there's no real call for it, you come suddenly out with a piece of 9-carat bitchery that shakes even you.”
― Lynne Reid Banks

“...weak of spine and flaccid of upper lip.”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

“Teeth gritted, he gazed down at me. "Now that I come to think about it. I'm not real keen on your eye color, either. What do you call that shade of green? Fungus?”
― Kylie Scott, Twist

“First of all, simply clawing or breathing at somedragon once isn't real fighting. Small people usually use words for what we mean by that. They might say, oh, "Your mother copulated extramaritally with a black poodle, and from this union you were born." Dragons just attack, once, instead. It's just as expressive.”
― Bard Bloom, Mating Flight: A Non-Romance of Dragons

“I don't know why I can't let the insults go, but I can't. I'm the product of every hurt that's ever been laid on me.”
― Julie Anne Peters

“It is how decent, civilized people behave, Captain Ransom. Though I suppose that to someone of your level of moral fortitude, it must seem remarkable.”
― Jim Butcher, Two for the Price of One: A Billy Michaels Mystery

“In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“If one man gets excessive maan (importance from others) higher than a certain point, he will get tired of it, and if he gets excessive insults higher than a certain point, he gets agitated.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“One will become shameless if he does not fear insults in the worldly life. And in nischay [determination in the spiritual life] if one does not fear being insulted, he becomes independent.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“One cannot have the same love for getting insulted (apmaan) as he does for getting importance (maan), can he? He cannot love loss as much as he loves profit, can he?”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Even if you insult him, he gives you his blessings; such a one only is the Gnani Purush [The enlightened one]!”
― Dada Bhagwan

“[Chucky] Ya peanut headed suckerfool!
Take me on!
Ya ugly knuckle butted dogface underpants!
You think I'm playin'?”
― Lynda Barry, One Hundred Demons

“On matters where it is difficult or impossible to pin the blame for their policies' failures on conservatives, the fallback position has been to hurl a slur at anyone pointing out the obvious failure....The left's never-ending use of these worn-out attacks on the character and motivations of those who disagree with them has caused them to lose their effect....At the ground level, since liberals have lost the ability to win any and every political discussion by hurling a slur, they are simply resorting to the next level in political interaction: violence and physical intimidation.”
― Sean Harshey