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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.] ↗


— Winston Churchill


#classic-insult #vice #virtue #leadership

(Slap) “Owhhh … ” Raymond yelled as the Old Man’s cane hit his face. ↗


— Judy Byington


#badly-written-fiction #insult-to-intelligence #intelligence

In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people. All the Communists who were hanged at the time by other Communists were awarded such abuse. Unlike those who had their feet solidly on the ground, they were said to float in the air. So it was fair, in a way, that as punishment the ground was permanently pulled out from under their feet, that they remained suspended a little above the floor. ↗


— Milan Kundera


#gallows-humour #hanged #insult #intellectual #life

Ay, that I had not done a thousand more. Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think, Few come within the compass of my curse,— Wherein I did not some notorious ill, As kill a man, or else devise his death, Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it, Accuse some innocent and forswear myself, Set deadly enmity between two friends, Make poor men's cattle break their necks; Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night, And bid the owners quench them with their tears. Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves, And set them upright at their dear friends' doors, Even when their sorrows almost were forgot; And on their skins, as on the bark of trees, Have with my knife carved in Roman letters, 'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.' Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things As willingly as one would kill a fly, And nothing grieves me heartily indeed But that I cannot do ten thousand more. ↗


— William Shakespeare


#evil #final-words #gallows #insult #monologue

Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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— Winston Churchill


#drunkenness #retort #classics

to call a man without the Holy Spirit "upright and God-fearing" is the same as calling Belial "Christ". ↗


— Martin Luther


#holy-spirit

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


#simile #simile

Right before the game, she strolled up to me. "Hey, Seaweed Brain." "Will you stop calling me that?" She knows I hate that name, mostly because I never have a good comeback. She's the daughter of Athena, which doesn't give me a lot of ammunition. I mean, "Owl-head" and "Wise Girl" are kind of lame insults. ↗


— Rick Riordan


#demigod #demigod-files #insults #percy-jackson #put-downs

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it. ↗


— Danny Aiello


#because #call #consider #early #had

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. ↗


— Isaac Asimov


#call #cruelty #deliberate #greater #him






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