#insult

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#book #deeply #insulting #ones #painful

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. ↗

— George Ripley

#attachment #cause #devotion #discussion #down

Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back. ↗

— Dominique Swain

#being #flirtatious #i #i think #insult

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes. ↗

— Karl Rove

#anything #become #called #campaigning #columnist

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. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#completely #i #insult #just #know

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

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#entitled #even #insulting #public #robust

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#after #family #hour #insulted #me

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#danger #i #insulted #paris #propped

Did anybody tell you that you're a few french fries short of a Happy Meal? ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#insult

As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn’t understand all of it, but he got son of a gorgon, power-hungry snake, and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick his knife. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hazel-levesque #humor #insults #octavian #percy-jackson