#insult

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#contempt #forgive #forgotten #injury #insult

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#because #been #compensated #does #healed

The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship. ↗

— Caroline Nichols Churchill

#besides #chance #class #his #insult

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#black #dislike #him #individual #insulting

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#insult #man #me #will

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

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#fire #flying #god #great #hailed

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#director #i #i think #insulting #interpretation

If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#dared #fake #insult #never #punch

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. ↗