Is it me you’re describing, or yourself?

Shoo. Away with you. It’s my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.

It’s insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do, you’re insulting yourself.

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

Avoid the use of abusive words in communications that may switch off the attention of your mentor and your customers away.

I’ll trade you one dollar for five dollars. What, is my money no good here?

I don’t want to see you. I don’t like you. I don’t like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You’re impertinent. You’re too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched...

When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them.

If someone calls you a failure it’s more than likely they feel like one.

Thinking before taking actions is useful only if you are going to take action, otherwise you are wasting time and insulting your mind.

Being insulted offers you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.

You’re not interesting in the least,” she spat. “I don’t need to be,” I smiled. “That’s what you need…And you’re welcome to it.

Every insult is an opportunity.

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

But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it’s being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it’s that much more of an insult,...

Public practice of any art and staring in men’s faces is very indelicate in a female,” he had said. Well I’d seen Dr. Johnson’s face in the book’s frontispiece and I couldn’t imagine anyone male...

Nat Parson says it’s the devil’s mark.””Nat Parson’s a gobshite.”Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson ‘gobshite.

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.