#insults

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. ↗

— Alice Walker

#insults #intended #long #long time #made

He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, something visceral and volcanic occurred within him. He wasn't sure what this might mean--except perhaps that he had got life and art mixed up, back to front, upside down. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#insults #life #literature #novels #poems

I’d heard you were dead.” "I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#insults #put-downs #rumors #witty #humor

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. ↗

— Moliere

#any #behavior #best #him #insults

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#insults #thousand #worth

These words of yours, devoid of Christ, devoid of Spirit, are colder than ice itself, so that they tarnish the beauty of your eloquence. Perhaps they were dragged out of you, poor fellow, by fear of the pontiffs and tyrants, lest you should seem altogether an atheist! ↗

— Martin Luther

#beauty

You,” Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, “are a bad case of herpes, wizard. You’re inconvenient, embarrassing, no real threat, and you simply will not go away. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#funny

Alexis grabbed his arm. "Tom Jones? Wow, I totally love Tom Jones. He's like quintessential Vegas—over the top and indecent fun. Let me just go grab a pair of underwear to throw at him and we'll be all set." Over his undead body. If anyone was getting her underwear tossed in his face, it was going to be him. "I don't think so, Ball Buster. You're not giving your panties to an old man." "Oh, and you're so young, Garlic?" "Garlic?" What the hell was that? "Yep. Now we have pet names for each other, isn't that adorable? You're Garlic and I'm Ball Buster. Now everyone will believe we're a real couple. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#humor #insults #nicknames #pet-names #tom-jones

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#insults #people

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#put-downs #stupidity #brain