The seer crow was outraged. “Mangiz does not forget an insult, hedgepig.”Ambrose smiled cheekily. “Good, then here’s a few more for you to remember, you pot-bellied, cross-eyed, feather-bottomed excuse for a duck.

Are ye ta’en with the swindle or the turn-sickness? Or are ye out of your wits?

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

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

In the political jargon of those days, the word “intellectual” was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people. All the Communists who were hanged at...

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

Takamasa Saegusa: ‘Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. For that reason, our lord had already decided to subject him to tu-uchi before long. Cut off...

Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.

To insult someone we call him ‘bestial’. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‘human’ might be the greater insult.

The times might be unpleasant, repulsive. The ghastly chaos, the abhorrent uncivility might be intolerable, might force us into argument or leave us panic-stricken.On such occasions people build within themselves a conviction, that the world...

Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you.

When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.

I learnt that no matter what names they give you, nothing applies until you wish it to. No insult, no barb yours to bear unless you want it to. Use it, if you want. Make...

Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.

Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.

The table that cannot stand upright, is an insult to the carpenter who makes it. God made us perfectly; so when we refuse to carry out the functions we were created for, our father loses...

Well that’s rude.

Humans are very strange. When you need a hug, they throw you away, when you need condolence , they insult you, and when you need love, they betray you.

Don’t feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is...

Rap is supposed to motivate, humours, address societal issues & personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women.

When I moved, the broker had told me there was something good for the brain about living near the sea, something about ions. But I often felt like the water was insulting me, like, “I’m...

She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke most of us can think of only long after the moment of 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...

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

In my normal world, cars do not go off the road and explode. Please, do not insult my intelligence.

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

You’d have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one!

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

And out came an insult with the velocity of a whisper. But I could see I offended, so I zipped up my pants and left the wedding reception.

He’s a pig and I don’t allow livestock in the house.

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.

Percy, you are dismissed from my service.””Me? Why, my lord?””Why? Because, Percy, far from being a fit consort for a prince of the realm, you would bore the leggings off a village idiot. You ride...

Go, prick thy face and over-red thy fear,Thou lily-livered boy.

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

…And where’s Margaret Pier? I know she’s not dead, even if she’s almost as old as I am and twice as stubborn.””She said she’d never set foot inside this house again. Not after what you...

You’ve begun to annoy me.

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

If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.

…the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.

She was my friend because she was kind and funny but she had a face like two oysters fused together in a Star Trek matter transporter accident.

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter.

Don’t be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses.

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

Stacey: “I’m surprised you haven’t thrown me out.”Comfort: “At your current weight, I’d need some sort of catapult.

And so you rush inexorably toward death. I don’t care if he stands on a Drury Lane stage and calls me a courtesan, I won’t have you risking your life.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

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...

She tried to insult me in front of the whole party. So what could I do but yawn and walk away?