#insult

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#enough #fair #good #had #insult

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#acts #always #deficient #exclusion #i

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

If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#hatred #illegal #incite #insult #justin

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alzheimer #any #atrophy #best #could

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#bad #captive #ever #however #i

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds. ↗

— John H. Johnson

#better #change #get #i #insulted

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#insults #those #who #wrong

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#change #change things #come #i #insult

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#commentary #gay #honesty #lesbian #lgbt