#insult

I've got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat you over the head with it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#insult

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

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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#huge #i #insult #kid #now

She is a peacock in everything but beauty! ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #insult #beauty

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#both #humor #insult #often #powerful

Oppression is more easily endured than insult. ↗

— Junius

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To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#force #his #indeed #injury #insult

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#dismiss #insults #re-examine #soul #told

He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, something visceral and volcanic occurred within him. He wasn't sure what this might mean--except perhaps that he had got life and art mixed up, back to front, upside down. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#insults #life #literature #novels #poems

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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