Insulting famous quotes

Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.
-- A. J. Liebling

#Wine #Insulting #Bottles

Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.
-- A. V. Dicey

#Writing #Thinking #Insulting

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.
-- Alfred Douglas

#Insulting #Pay #England

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised
-- Andre Maurois

#Insulting #May #Used

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
-- Aneurin Bevan

#Insulting #Democracy #Germany

Freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the Prophets of Allah...
-- Anjem Choudary

#Expression #Insulting #Doe

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
-- Anthony Holden

#Insulting #Literature #Reputation

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Being Yourself #Depressing #Insulting

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.
-- Arthur Murray

#People #Insulting #England

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.
-- Artie Lange

#Insulting #Sound #Want

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.
-- Auberon Waugh

#Two Sides #Insulting #Loathing

You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally,
-- Barack Obama

#Insulting #Allies #Olympics

London, dirty little pool of life
-- Behramji Malabari

#Dirty #Insulting #Littles

False humility is more insulting than open pride!
-- Brandon Mull

#Humility #Pride #Insulting

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun

#Insulting #Use #Quotations

All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones

#Girl #Parent #Insulting

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth.
-- Charles Luckman

#America #Space #Insulting

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#Country #Two #Insulting

I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.
-- Christopher Paolini

#Healthy #Insulting #Bovine

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
-- Christopher Plummer

#Evil #Smoking #Insulting

Im not sure which is more insulting, being offered in a trade or having it turned down.
-- Claude Osteen

#Insulting #Not Sure #Turned Down

About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.
-- Clement Freud

#Bird #Insulting #May

The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#People #Insulting #World

Never Throw Stones At Your Mother
-- David Ross

#Mother #Insulting #Stones

Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.
-- Derren Brown

#Honesty #Insulting #Magic

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'
-- Dick Gregory

#Boys #Expression #Insulting

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Thinking #Challenges #Insulting

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion
-- Edward Bond

#Views #Play #Insulting

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.
-- Elliott Smith

#Views #Political #Insulting

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.
-- Emmanuelle Beart

#Teacher #School #Insulting

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

#Life #Philosophical #Insulting

There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.
-- Eric Linklater

#America #People #Insulting

Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.
-- Eustache Deschamps

#Insulting #Coward #England

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
-- Evan Esar

#Thinking #Insulting #Able

I may not have the type of voice you like, but I can sing. You can’t take that away from me, ‘cause singing is a gift from God, and when people say I can’t sing, it’s kind of like insulting God.
-- Fergie

#Voice #People #Insulting

The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Eagles #People #Insulting

She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappropriate future moment.
-- Gail Carriger

#Insulting #Inappropriate #Moments

Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added "...unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army."
-- Gemma Hussey

#Army #Insulting #Church

Are you trying to tell me that you've never been kissed?" I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. He looked so dubious, and his tone had borderd on insulting. "Yeah. So?" "So, I'm shocked, that's all. You're...you." In-sul-ting."Me?" I asked stiffly. "Yeah. Hot," he said. Wait. Me? HOT? He laughed down at me."No one's told you that, either, have they?" I could only shake me head. "You've clearly been hanging around idiots.
-- Gena Showalter

#Waiting #Insulting #Trying

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
-- George Orwell

#Family #Insulting #Phrases

Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the gods, he is not dealing with persons but with ideas. He is incapable of insulting God, for he does not admit the existence of any such being... We attack not a person but a belief, not a binge but an idea, not a fact but a fancy.
-- George William Foote

#Atheist #Ideas #Insulting

I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.
-- Gilles Marini

#Wine #Glasses #Insulting

The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay
-- Goronwy Rees

#Insulting #Delay #Germany

Men like to chase and you have to let us chase you. I know. It's insulting. It's frustrating. It's unfortunately the truth.
-- Greg Behrendt

#Relationship #Men #Insulting

Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.
-- Grover Norquist

#Insulting #President #Debt

Sherlock: You're keeping a SCRAPBOOK. Only old ladies and pre-pubescent girls keep scrapbooks, John. John: It's not a scrapbook, Sherlock. I'm collecting papers relevant to the cases. It helps me remember the details. And it was locked away in my desk drawer. Sherlock: The lock on your desk drawer was insulting me with its pretense at security.
-- Guy Adams

#Girl #Insulting #Paper

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.
-- Hanif Kureishi

#Running #Insulting #Racist

The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.
-- Heinrich Heine

#Long #People #Insulting

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.
-- Helen Garner

#Men #Insulting #Violence

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.
-- Ivan van Sertima

#Native American #Insulting #Native

They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Insulting #Spiders #Stones

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
-- James Agate

#Men #Insulting #England

When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'
-- Janeane Garofalo

#Insulting #Flags #American Flag

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.
-- Jay Sekulow

#Insulting #Speech #Robust

Don't just talk about Hispanics and say immediately we must have controlled borders. It's kind of insulting when you think about it. Change the tone would be the first thing. Second, on immigration, I think we need to have a broader approach.
-- Jeb Bush

#Thinking #Insulting #Immigration

My coach confirmed to me my impression that he uses a different measuring stick to evaluate Almunia. For me, this was a huge disappointment. That has forced me to think about my situation. I have to ask myself what is still realistic and possible for me at Arsenal? When Wenger says something like that, it's going to be difficult for me to get back in here. It's very frustrating. When I see the performances on the field, I get angry and I have to clench my fist in my pocket.
-- Jens Lehmann

#Disappointment #Thinking #Insulting

Lampard is a specialist in insulting people very badly.
-- Jens Lehmann

#People #Insulting #Specialists

They know how to play well but they do not know how to go through a whole tournament. We have been there and done it. They haven't.
-- Jens Lehmann

#Play #Insulting #Done

I do not have a 24-year-old girlfriend. I have another life altogether.
-- Jens Lehmann

#Girlfriend #Years #Insulting

He takes himself far too seriously and thinks he is very important. I don't like it when someone glorifies themself.
-- Jens Lehmann

#Thinking #Insulting #Important

It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it
-- Jens Lehmann

#Careers #Decision #Insulting

I made two mistakes at the beginning of the season. But I saw Manuel Almunia making mistakes as well, so sometimes you don't know what the thoughts of the coach are.'
-- Jens Lehmann

#Mistake #Two #Insulting

He does not have my class.
-- Jens Lehmann

#Class #Insulting #Doe

To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.
-- Jens Lehmann

#Play #Insulting #Sitting

And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.
-- Jessica Valenti

#People #Insulting #Incredibles

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.
-- Jim Butcher

#People #Insulting #Annoying

Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.
-- John Podhoretz

#Spiritual #Jobs #Insulting

After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons and Normans ... There could be no more eloquent illustration of the colonial mind-set than a bunch of Celts and Vikings in a distant northern territory insulting each other as les Anglais and the French as if they were the descendants of the people who had subjected and ruined them.
-- John Ralston Saul

#Illustration #People #Insulting

I am not well suited to the tasks that are set before me today. Most of what I must do is either insulting to my intelligence, or far beyond my capabilities. This explains why I am so frustrated and full of rage most of the time.
-- John S. Hall

#Insulting #Frustrated #Tasks

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
-- Judith Martin

#Honesty #Mean #Insulting

The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.
-- Julien Offray de La Mettrie

#Insulting #Meat #Red

The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.
-- Julius Caesar Scaliger

#Stupid #Insulting #Savages

The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.
-- Karel Capek

#Average #Cooking #Insulting

Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.
-- Larry McMurtry

#Insulting

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
-- Margaret Halsey

#Attitude #Insulting #Directors

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
-- Margaret Halsey

#Insulting #Asking #Dinner

God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less. If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.
-- Mark Batterson

#Dream #Prayer #Insulting

Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.
-- Mary Daly

#Self #Psychics #Insulting

In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.
-- Matthew Arnold

#Home #Class #Insulting

Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's opponents and her critics would like to see her leave the public square by insulting, degrading, demeaning, abusing and ridiculing her, and - by pretending that she has nothing to say.
-- Matthew Continetti

#Mean #Squares #Insulting

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.
-- Matthew Tobin Anderson

#Believe #Book #Insulting

The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country.
-- Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully

#Country #Fashion #Insulting

To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.
-- Michael Stipe

#Years #Insulting #Three

I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.
-- Mike Piazza

#Gay #People #Insulting

I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to stay in China." The thought visibly struck him, and his head came up with sudden enthusiasm. "If I were very offensive, do you suppose they would go away now?" he asked. "Laurence, what would be particularly insulting" Hammond looked like Pandora, the box open and horrors loose upon the world. Laurence was inclined to laugh, but he stifled it out of sympathy.
-- Naomi Novik

#Laughing #Insulting #Going Away

England is a nation of shopkeepers.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

#Business #Insulting #England

Insulting the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) is like trying to spit at the sun, it will only come back in your face.
-- Nouman Ali Khan

#Insulting #Trying #Faces

If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York
-- O. Henry

#New York #Insulting

Life is too short to learn German
-- Oscar Wilde

#Life #Insulting #Germany

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
-- Oscar Wilde

#Men #Insulting #Sometimes

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
-- Paul Gallico

#Rude #Insulting #Abuse

This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas - because they simply don't know about its existence or they don't know how it operates.
-- Peter York

#People #Insulting #May

They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield.
-- Philip Freneau

#Country #Memorial Day #Insulting

She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.
-- Portia de Rossi

#Giving #Insulting #Way

Maybe you're not his type." Michael said "Oh, now you're just being insulting.
-- Rachel Caine

#Insulting #Just Being #Said

When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.
-- Rob Bell

#Revenge #Insulting #Want

Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Insulting #Answers #Dignity

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

#Media #People #Insulting

This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Book #Guy #Insulting

Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.
-- Sinclair B. Ferguson

#Men #Insulting