#insult

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

[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

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#insightful #inspirational #insult #humor

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#inspirational #insults #success #inspirational

Never insult anyone by accident. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anyone #insult #never

Whatever insults my State insults me. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#me #state #whatever

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#being #book #close #columns #couple

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on. ↗

— Will Arnett

#ever #every #far #hope #i

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