#insulting

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#book #deeply #insulting #ones #painful

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#delightful #insulting #pretty #professional #reputation

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting. ↗

— Epictetus

#insults #opinion #strikes #these #things

I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#film #give #i #i think #insulting

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. ↗

— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#insulting #point #quotations #use #words

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind. ↗

— James Meredith

#civil #civil rights #concept #could #insulting

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#behind #come #crap #free #free press

I remembered that Johnson had declared portrait painting to be an improper employment for a woman. “Public practice of any art and staring in men’s faces is very indelicate in a female,” he had said. Well I’d seen Dr. Johnson’s face in the book’s frontispiece and I couldn’t imagine anyone male or female wanting to stare into it for any length of time —the man was an absolute toad. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#insulting #lol #art

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#black #dislike #him #individual #insulting

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