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Hi. I haven't insulted you yet, have I?
You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.
The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me ... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.
Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's the most intense kind of massage the ego can undergo. Other people's indifference is the only horror.
No one can insult you without your permission.
Every insult is an opportunity.
Anthropologist Mary Douglas (1991) examines the very thin line separating a joke from an insult: a joke expresses something a community is ready to hear; an insult expresses something it doesn't want to consider.
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
People throw insults at you, and sometimes they hit a nerve - and it's about not showing that, because they will pick on that. Don't feed the trolls!
Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.
passing insults back and forth, as if they were biscuits.
When people are angry, any insult will do; and prejudice is magnified into a cause.
When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.
The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you cant ignore it, top it; if you cant top it, laugh at it; if you cant laugh at it, its probably deserved
The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
I let the insults go by. A good swordsman doesn't pay attention to words in a fight.
Why do i put up with you? You insult me at every turn.
Insults are only really effective," she said, "when the person insulted cares for the good opinion of the insulter
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.
Insults may hurt at 1st, but a callus will form to protect you in the future. Life is gonna be all right.
Great humorists are great insulters.
Don't thank me," snapped Idrith, "I just insulted you.
There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
The biggest insult is that I've been called an exaggerator ... I tell the truth as I know it. I don't glamorize the nightmare and horror that I witness; I just digest it and spew it back, with venom.
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
The most painful part of the beatings is the insult which they imply.
Insult her again, and I will cut your into so many pieces they'll never find them all.
What, for instance, does it mean to be insulted? [29] Stand by a rock and insult it, and what have you accomplished? If someone responds to insult like a rock, what has the abuser gained with his invective? If, however, he has his victim's weakness to exploit, then his efforts are worth his while.
Small talk is a lubricant, not an insult,
Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.
Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?
Is it wrong worldly interaction (avyavahar) when someone insults you? It is (correct) worldly interaction (vyavahar). Gnani (Self-realized person) will be pleased that he has become free from karma bondage, when someone insults Him; while a non Self-realized person will fight back.
Don't be ridiculous, please.'
The most insulting words in the world!
No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.
Very ugly things were said about me.
I don't mind personal insults, but when you insult the jokes that I tell you're insulting Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Burns and Allen, Trevor McGee and Molly Picon.
For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things
Anyone that insults my country, my intelligence, my feminist ideals, all women in general, and a favorite childhood food, and refers to both himself and me in the third person in one sentence automatically gets an honorary spot on my Hate With Every Fiber of My Being For All Time list.
Shit, I'm sorry," he finally said. "For what?" I asked, angrily, "the insults or the kissing?" "The insults. Not sorry for the kissing.
Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
To tolerate is to insult.
Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.
Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.
You have an astonishing ability to deliver insults in the most normal tone of voice. Do you find that makes you popular among your acquaintance?
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
He insulted me' -this knowledge binds one with terrible demerit karma.
I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder
Be respectful of words. They mean something.
Insult is a monstrous scorpion, and compliment is a likeable nightingale; one stings mercilessly, and the other sings sweetly.
The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art
However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong
They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.
Being insulted offers you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.
Retribution is tricky ... The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.
If he insults you, I'll cut his head off and you can drink his blood.
We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.
An unkind remark is like a killing frost - no matter how much it warms up, the damage is already done.
If you're insulting people on the internet, you must be ugly on the inside.
Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.
Arguments cannot be answered with insults ... Kindness is strength ... Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.
Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.
The earthquake of discomfort you feel moving inside of you when someone insults you is your own insecurity.
When one has no fear of insults, no one will insult him; that is the rule. The 'transactions' will continue as long as there is fear. The moment fear is gone, the transactions will end.
Whatever insults my State insults me.
I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.
People trash talk me.
When i was nervous, I resorted to inadvertent insults.
He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.
Never insult anyone by accident.
We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.
I could not recall the last time I had been so flagrantly insulted.
Don't make enemies, I told myself.
Swallow your pride.
Hold your tongue.
But the fact was, I had real difficulty with those particular virtues.
It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you're offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger.
There are two ways to react to criticism and the wrong one is to be offended.
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey ...
A true friend is not angry when you insult. Instead they think of more insulting words to you.
Don't take anything personally
If you brought me out driving just so you could insult me-"
"Oh, not just to insult you.
We don't know how to insult you any more' (Inter fan banner, directed at their own team)
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
Angry words backfire upon the speaker.
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
We are usually angered when someone insults us, until Divine Grace comes upon us. When we receive Grace, we no longer feel hurt when others insult us but remain quiet and peaceful, as though the insult was not directed at us at all.
Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements they have in their own minds.
an incantation of hatred.
I shall be happy Even for insults from you I only ask that you Keep some attention on me.
When someone isn't smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don't use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence.
To insult a friend implies that you respect his masculinity enough to know he can take it without acting like a crybaby. The swapping of insults, like the fighting between brothers, becomes the seal of the male bonding.
I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.
If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
Never agree with a man who insults you.
Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed
When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.