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O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!
"If you love good roads, conveniences, good inns, plenty of postilions and horses, be so kind as to never go into Sussex. We thought ourselves in the northest part of England; the whole country has a Saxon air, and the inhabitants are savage."
- To George Montagu, Esq., August 26, 1749
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Be stingy of nothing but the name of friend, and take care not to waste your insults.
A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.
[I]f I suffered only one fool gladly, I assure you it would be you.
I nearly forgot something my old father told me not long before he died. He said the threshold of insult is in direct relation to intelligence and security.
The right to insult members of the government is inviolable.
It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.
"I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervous about?" "Look," I said. "I'm sorry about the band room. I hope they didn't kick you our or anything." "Nah. They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb." "Was it hard?" Annabeth asked.
Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is not written on my face.
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
"I am sorry," said Monty. "I cannot respond to you in any way. I am just not sufficiently interested in anything you have to say."
You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.
Vai-te, vai-te, e te distrai entre as criadas de tua mãe, e ali cuida de teus cabelos e de tuas mãos, mais preparadas para enrolar os macios fios de seda que a empunhar a dura espada.