Insult Quotes

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Oscar Levant
“Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.”
Oscar Levant

George Eliot
“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
George Eliot, Silas Marner

Israelmore Ayivor
“Free your life from the fangs of gossips by not associating yourself with them. Anyone who helps you to gossip about someone can also help someone to gossip about you.”
Israelmore Ayivor

Tucker Max
“8:58 We go to McDonald's. The woman in front of me in line spends more than five seconds contemplating her order. This infuriates me, "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?? MC-SEABASS?? IT'S THE GODDAMN MCDONALDS'S MENU, IT'S BEEN THE SAME FOR TEN YEARS! IT'S ALL MCSHIT!JUST ORDER!”
Tucker Max, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

Tamora Pierce
“I bet his mother was a wyvern.
-Scamp”
Tamora Pierce, The Realms of the Gods

Plato
“Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.”
Plato, The Republic

Jim Butcher
“You," Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, "are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're inconvenient, embarassing, no real threat, and you simply will not go away.”
Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

William Shakespeare
“O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!”
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Susan Andersen
“If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.”
Susan Andersen, Baby, Don't Go

Tamora Pierce
“If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'"
Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?”
Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure

George Washington
“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.”
George Washington, The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799 Volume 39 (General Index O-Z List of Letters) - Leather Bound

“Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable?”
Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

Michael Bassey Johnson
“No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Jeaniene Frost
“Oh.” Timmie gave Bones a shy peek. “Are you Cathy’s brother?”
“Whatever would give you the idea that I’m her damn brother?” Bones snapped.”
Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave

“He's a pig and I don't allow livestock in the house.”
Erin McCarthy, My Immortal

Christopher Moore
“May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.”
Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

“Me? I'm being ridiculous? You're the one flirting for your thesis. What the hell kind of degree is that anyway? A doctorate of dick tease?”
Erin McCarthy, Hard and Fast

Kim Thúy
“If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.”
Kim Thúy, Ru

William Shakespeare
“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!”
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“Seamus: "I was wondering if you would like to go get some coffee"
Cara: "Well that depends ... do you like to take long walks?"
Seamus: "Yes"
Cara: "Do you like sex?"
Seamus: "Yeees"
Cara: "Then take a f***ing hike and leave me the hell alone.”
Erin McCarthy, Bit the Jackpot

Abba Eban
“His ignorance is encyclopedic.”
Abba Eban

Oscar Wilde
“I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.”
Oscar Wilde

Douglas Adams
“You're a jerk,' repeated the alien, 'a complete asshole.”
Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

Orson Scott Card
“The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.”
Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

Gordon Dahlquist
“First you say I am a murderer - an agent in league against you - and now I am a deluded heartsick girl! Pray make up your mind so I can scoff at you with precision!”
Gordon Dahlquist, The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Volume Two

Eileen Wilks
“You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!”
Eileen Wilks, On the Prowl

Homer
“Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.”
Homer, The Iliad

Julie Berry
“Come, come," I said. "You may be a lord someday, but you aren't one yet. No need for the courtly manners, and certainly not the moody temper. If you're to be my escort tonight, I insist you be a cheery one. You can even insult me if you like. It always makes you feel better.”
Julie Berry, The Amaranth Enchantment

Orson Scott Card
“Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.”
Orson Scott Card, Hart's Hope