#insult

As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn’t understand all of it, but he got son of a gorgon, power-hungry snake, and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick his knife. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hazel-levesque #humor #insults #octavian #percy-jackson

how devastated I am to say that I will not be present at your petite soiree on June 10th. Unfortunately, the exceptionally weak drinks you ordinarily serve at these occasions are not sufficient to dull my senses to your boyfriend's futile efforts to grope me in the hallway. ↗

— Lady Arabella Snark

#insults #snark #humor

a quite novel kind of grammar and logic, according to which what is something is nothing ↗

— Martin Luther

#grammar

Hey, look—your girlfriend is saying something." Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl? ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#humor #insults #puberty #humor

How can I deal with annoying persons in a way that utterly crushes them witohut tarnishing my carefully developed reputation or extending my already lengthy prison sentence? ↗

— Lady Arabella Snark

#insults #snark #humor

I’ll trade you one dollar for five dollars. What, is my money no good here?
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#insult #insulted #insulting #money #money

If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned. ↗

— Kim Thúy

#insult #language #love

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#insults #inspirational

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#beliefs #clichés #convictions #dignity #double-standards

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool. ↗

— Brigham Young

#insult #rage #inspirational