55 Quotes Tagged: insult

Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off — all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.

[I]f I suffered only one fool gladly, I assure you it would be you.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.

Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!

O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!

I have nothing but respect for you — and not much of that.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

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.

If someone is the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren't you ashamed of that?

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.