Quotes of Insulting - somelinesforyou

“ But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness. ”

- John Adams

“ I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor. ”

- William Ralph Inge

“ I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour. ”

- William R. Inge

“ There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it. ”

- Horace Mann

“ If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent. ”

- Edward N. Hurley

“ There's nothing worse than taking your children to a bad pantomime where they are having more fun on stage than the kids are in the audience. It's insulting, it's demeaning, it's excluding. ”

- Ben Kingsley

“ Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft

“ That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. ”

- Amanda Cross

“ It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking. ”

- Epictetus

“ Isn't Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. ”

- Amanda Cross

“ I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave. ”

- Dennis Miller

“ Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ I'm not intending to imply insult or judgment here but I am curious to know in order to be able to respond to your posts in an appropriate manner, so please forgive what appears to be, but in fact is not intended as, an insulting question: Are you stupid? ”

- Melinda Shore
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