#insult

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

Never insult anyone by accident. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anyone #insult #never

Whatever insults my State insults me. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#me #state #whatever

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#endure #human #human being #humor #insults

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved. ↗