The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Mark McPherson: [about the list of suspects] You know you are on the list too. Waldo Lydecker: Good. It would insult me to be overlooked.
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.
An insult bestowed on your interior and exterior personality; for causes beyond control, kills you innumerably, till the last breath.
I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.
Rap is supposed to motivate, humours, address societal issues & personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women.
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
A knight can fight. As you well know, I fight about as well as a pillow." "That's an insult to pillows. At least they can take a beating.
The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.
Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.
I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.
The easiest way to disarm a bully or a jerk is to take any insult he throws at you and follow it with, 'I know, and isn’t it fabulous?!
The car whispered up the slope and nosed quietly out above the trees. He was driving like a careful insult.
A Tinker's Debt is Always Paid: Once for a simple trade. Twice for freely given aid. Thrice for any insult made.
Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head." Eddie DeChooch
In marriage, insult arises again and again; and pain has to be not only endured, but consented to; and the amount of forgiveness that it necessitates is incredible and exhausting.
Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people.
When someone I admire turns out to be a rather normal guy, I get offended because it’s an insult to my jealousy.
She tried to insult me in front of the whole party. So what could I do but yawn and walk away?
