“Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.” — Suzanne Fields
“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.” — Frederick Douglass
“There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.” — Lord Chesterfield
“I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.” — Clarence Darrow
“The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see.” — Richie Benaud
“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.” — Lord Chesterfield
“The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.” — John Adams
“Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.” — Edward Abbey
“The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.” — Caroline Nichols Churchill
“I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.” — Josephine Baker
“Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.” — Lawrence Durrell
“Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.” — Margaret Cho