Is it me you’re describing, or yourself?

Being told you are wrong or insulted, gives you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.

‘Hmmm,’ the King said, making a face. ‘I’m not sure this is what we bargained for, boy. We expected the girl to be attractive.’ If I hadn’t been so terrified, I would have been insulted.

He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn’t really mind–or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a...

Hey, look—your girlfriend is saying something.”Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn’t even sure if it was an insult. And if...

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I’ve told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman’s effort.

You look lousy,’ he said. Jace blinked. ‘Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.”No I mean it. You don’t look good.”This is...

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly...

I’m going to fuck you up until your mother bleeds.

You know well I couldn’t bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it’s wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

In their native land, pythons hang around wading bird rookeries. Our wading bird populations have declined because of insults we’ve done to their environment, and here we’re throwing another insult at them. We’re trying to...

I don’t like yelling insults at someone who’s never done anything to me.

Don’t let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

How ironic that Sam Johnson has just returned from a visit to Hanoi yet insults the memory for the man who go him out of the there.

[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are...

Too bad. Game over. Insert new fucking quarter.

As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men...

Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop.

To say ‘we’ and mean ‘I’ is one of the most recondite insults.

Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.

An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect.

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

The only honest things I can say to you are insults.

What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.

Go make love to a tube sock.

A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.”(on Ezra Pound)

There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York.” (on Tom Wolfe)

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe.”(on Mark Twain)

Whatever negative things people think and say about you is enough to bring you down provided you belief that it carries a weight that can push you hard. Don’t agree to accept what critics say;...

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.

They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

You couldn’t find your dick in the dark, you scheming, sleaze-mongering scumwad.

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

Some guys like to undermine a girl’s self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn’t hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”(on Ernest Hemingway

Peter to Austin:”Hard-ons don’t make you think less. They make you think stupid. Which makes me think you must have one 24/7.

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.

He’d call me false and faithless and I’ve always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they’re the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.

In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might...

We both want you dead. I’m bringing the friendship bracelets to the next meeting.

If a shred of integrity fell into your soul, it would die a very lonely death.

Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”(on Lillian Hellman)