#insult

There's love and everybody talks about it, but not all of us come close to it - or, if we do, it's not in the expected way. ↗

— Rupert Thomson

#rupert-thomson #the-insult #love

What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.” Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#eye-opening #feminism #gender-inequality #insults #men

I remembered that Johnson had declared portrait painting to be an improper employment for a woman. “Public practice of any art and staring in men’s faces is very indelicate in a female,” he had said. Well I’d seen Dr. Johnson’s face in the book’s frontispiece and I couldn’t imagine anyone male or female wanting to stare into it for any length of time —the man was an absolute toad. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#insulting #lol #art

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#insults #people

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill) "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one." — Churchill's response ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#play

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? ↗

— Mark Twain

#simile #insult

It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#insult

Nor had she missed when they zigzagged between levels, even though the building was a standard grid of hallways and stairwells. As if she'd lose her bearings that easily. She might have been insulted if he wasn't trying so hard. ↗

— Sarah J. Maas

#throne-of-glass #insult

Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#saints #insult

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#nature