#insult

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#bad #being #did #down #eat

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. ↗

— George Ripley

#attachment #cause #devotion #discussion #down

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#bad #captive #ever #however #i

To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#insult #recovery

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds. ↗

— John H. Johnson

#better #change #get #i #insulted

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

#insult #lyrics #poetry #poets #real

Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back. ↗

— Dominique Swain

#being #flirtatious #i #i think #insult

He leaned in for a sniff. 'Smells like a horse's arse! I've got Ian!' -'No sniffing allowed! We never discussed sniffing! I cry foul!' Ian was outraged. 'I'm not giving you a shilling!' -'Give him a shilling! It's not his fault you smell like a horse's arse! ↗

— Julie Anne Long

#humour #insults #name-calling #humor

I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that. ↗

— Calvin Klein

#beautiful #beautiful things #i #i love #insult

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#insults #those #who #wrong