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?

Me? I’m being ridiculous? You’re the one flirting for your thesis. What the hell kind of degree is that anyway? A doctorate of dick tease?

Some women tend to bring insults into a little show you put forth to make them laugh, but they later accuse you of some abnormality if you keep them at arms length in order to...

Hertzfeld recalled that Gates just sat there coolly, looking at Steve in the eye, before hurling back, in his squeaky voice, what became a classic zinger. “Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way...

Get you gone, you dwarf,You minimus of hindering knotgrass made,You bead, you acorn!

It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!

Free your life from the fangs of gossips by not associating yourself with them. Anyone who helps you to gossip about someone can also help someone to gossip about you.

If you say so.

You have right to be angry, insult and slap. But later you have to forgive.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station.(on Elgar)

Use a condom. The world doesn’t need another you.

Usitukane kamwe. Pigana itakapobidi.

Those acidic insults being poured down on you are found in satan’s gallons! Watch those who tackle you for you to fall down; watch them closely. They are wearing the booths Satan invented! Don’t attack...

I’ve got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat you over the head with it.

4.04 APOLOGYA second insult be just a stiff apology,As the first be when hurt was the party;Damages for aggrieved no medicine be,But healing from hurt – the desire only.[38]- 4

Behind every crime lies an insult

I’ll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

My stomach’s upset. I must have accidentally said something to insult it.