#insult

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#simile #insult

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. ↗

— E.M. Forster

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If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#insult #insult

Salt. Wound. Together at last. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#insult

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#poetry #insult

Mousedung! ↗

— Erin Hunter

#insults #put-downs #insult

I bet his mother was a wyvern. -Scamp ↗

— Tamora Pierce

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My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen ↗

— David Eddings

#the-belgariad #insult

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#beg #here #his #i #insulted

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#music #shakespeare #music