#insult

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

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alzheimer #any #atrophy #best #could

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

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

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#good #insult #journalism #journalists #you

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#change #change things #come #i #insult

Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#anything #because #dinner #dinner party #guy

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#danger #i #insulted #paris #propped