#insult

When someone I admire turns out to be a rather normal guy, I get offended because it’s an insult to my jealousy. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#insult #jealousy #jealousy

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

Love Egoist: Let me tell you this. I've done things to be appreciated but nothing to be insulted for. After all, I'm trying my hardest not to disappoint my students. ↗

— Bisco Hatori

#dissapoint #hard #insult #love

He has Van Gogh’s ear for music. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#music #music

Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite. ↗

— Joanne Harris

#superstition #nature

I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#gibe #insult #respect

O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#insult #thief-of-love #dreams

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 ↗

— Winston Churchill

#retort #responsibility

Granny Weatherwaz was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, not if he wanted to wake up in the morning the same shape as he went to bed. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#insults #witch #equality

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

— Johannes Brahms

#beg #here #his #i #insulted