#th

Nor had she missed when they zigzagged between levels, even though the building was a standard grid of hallways and stairwells. As if she'd lose her bearings that easily. She might have been insulted if he wasn't trying so hard. ↗

— Sarah J. Maas

#throne-of-glass #insult

Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#borvil #goliath #insults #leviathan #scott-westerfeld

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#benevolence #epigram #reputation #wild

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#commentary #gay #honesty #lesbian #lgbt

Mousedung! ↗

— Erin Hunter

#insults #put-downs #insult

My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen ↗

— David Eddings

#the-belgariad #insult

We didn't Make this World we're just the Poor Fools who are living in it. ↗

— Michael Grant

#poor

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#civilization

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#gun #sustainability #western-civilization #civilization

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again. ↗