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It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Writer
Clever
Insult
Said
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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
Isabel Allende
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Writer
Angry
Book
Insult
People
Readership
Thinking
Sell
Such A Thing
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Don't ever insult a Chicano about being a Chicano because then all the other Chicanos will be on you with a vengeance. They will even fight each to be first in line to support you.
Cheech Marin
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Comedian
Insult
Vengeance
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Most people, when they think of an insult, they keep it to themselves. But you wouldn't believe the things people say on my Twitter feed, and I'm a nice guy. Imagine if I was a jerk.
Jeff Ross
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Stand-Up Comedian
Imagine
Insult
Jerk
Nice Guy
Twitter
Believe People Things
Feed
People Say
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Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you're lucky, that's literally going to happen to you. It's a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently.
Ricky Gervais
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Comedian
Bizarre
Insult
Strange Thing
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Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.
Pankaj Mishra
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Essayist
Blasphemy
European Countries
France
Insult
Public Life
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Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!
Georgette Heyer
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Novelist
Girl
Insult
Swallowing
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The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.
Mary C. Ames
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Editor
Insult
Intellectual
Spiritual
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I'd just sit with Dee Dee on the corner off of Queens Boulevard and drink and insult people and stuff. That's when I got kicked out of my house. My mother told me it was for my own good.
Joey Ramone
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Musician
Queens
Boulevard
Insult
Good Me People
Good Mother Me
Corner
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Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
Liu Xiaobo
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Literary Critic
Freedom
Truth
Expression
Free Expression
Free Speech
Human Nature
Insult
Mother
Rights
Speech
Free
Base
Human
Root
Stifle
Suppress
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It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me.
Steve Albini
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Singer
Band
Insult
Producers
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People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.
Winona Ryder
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Actress
Insult
People
Pretty Woman
Thinking
Waiting
Personally
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Corporate identity specialists spend their time rechristening other companies, conducting a legal search and a linguistic search to insure that the name is not an insult in another language.
Lisa Belkin
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Author
Identity
Insult
Names
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We Woosters do not lightly forget. At least, we do - some things - appointments, and people's birthdays, and letters to post, and all that - but not an absolutely bally insult like the above.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Writer
Insult
Letters
People
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I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.
Toni Morrison
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Novelist
Exclusion
Insult
People
Racist
Always People Person
Always People Never
Absorb
Acts
Deficient
People Always Person
Looked
Pitiable
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Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz did their best Donald Trump impersonation. All three unleashing an unprecedented string of insults and attacks fit more for a barroom than a presidential debate stage.
Chris Hayes
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Commentator
Insult
Presidential
Three
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If I'm insulted I will counterattack, or if something is unfair, I will counterattack, but I don't feel like I insult people. I don't want to do that. But if I'm attacked, I will counterattack.
Donald Trump
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45Th President Of The United States
Insult
People
Want
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He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]
Pierre Corneille
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Dramatist
Increase
Insult
Outrage
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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.
Lydia Lunch
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Singer
Insult
Nightmare
Venom
Witness
Digest
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I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.
Michel Houellebecq
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Author
Insult
Problem
Provocation
Tempted
Use
Life I Am Me
Admit
Attack
Brings
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It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.
Vladimir Potanin
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Faces
Insult
Luxury
Modest
Wealth
Demonstrate
Rub
Showing
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In the 1970s people were afraid to call me black because they thought it was an insult. They would say 'coloured.' Now it has gone full circle. It's not an issue. The intention is the most important thing.
John Barnes
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Author
Insult
Intention
Me Important People
Afraid
Circle
Coloured
Full
Black Me People
Important Thing
Issue
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.
Chiang Kai-Shek
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Former President Of The Republic Of China
Abuse
Description
Died
Influence
Insult
Miserable
Solitary
Target
Condition
Beyond
Family Time Father
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Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our house then they were arguing about music, or movies, or food.
Ezekiel Emanuel
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Medical Doctor
Arguing
Insult
Ultimate
Views
Yelling
Expressed
Smiling
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The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.
Paul Prudhomme
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Chef
Bad People
Comeback
Insult
People
Good Walk People
Good Walk Bad
Otherwise
Plate
Recognized
Restaurant
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You see, it's essential that one of us stays awake during the flight [ballon]. So, rather than using the comfortable Virgin seats which we used to cross the Atlantic, we've asked British Airways for two of theirs.
Richard Branson
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Business Magnate
Essentials
Insult
Two
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Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.
Susan Estrich
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Lawyer
Sports
Animal
Compare
Fun
Insult
Sake
Assumes
Predators
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If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.
Tony Parsons
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British Journalist
Hatred
Illegal
Insult
Justin
Remarks
Rip
Way
Incite
Justin Bieber
Threaten
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In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?
Sebastian Junger
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Author
Insult
Obscene
Reasonable
Risk-taking
Theory
Ultimate
Dismiss
Persists
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The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.
Hideki Tojo
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Military Officer
Causes
China
Exclusion
Goods
Illegal
Insult
Japan
Persecution
Residents
Rights
Violation
Incident
Throughout
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Pressure is the single mom who is trying to scuffle and pay her rent. We get paid a lot of money to play a game. Don't get me wrong: there are challenges. But to call it pressure is almost an insult to regular people.
Damian Lillard
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Basketball Player
Mom
Challenges
Insult
Paid
Pay
Play
Pressure
Single
Single Mom
Trying
Mom Money Me
Lot
Almost
Game
Call
Wrong
Her
Regular
Regular People
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We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.
Henry David Thoreau
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Author
Friendship
Haste
Insult
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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.
Rowan Atkinson
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Actor
Clear
Criticism
Insult
Orthodoxy
Point Of View
Problem
Ridicule
Sarcasm
Sarcastic
Views
Things
Alternative
Too
Interpreted
Merely
Point
Stating
View
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A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.
Serge Schmemann
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Writer
History
Balkans
Competing
East
Humiliation
Insult
Middle
Middle East
Narrative
Regions
Terror
Acts
Behind
Conflicts
Insults
Lurks
Narratives
Perceived
Sustain
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I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.
Kevyn Aucoin
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Make Up Artist
Actresses
Insult
Lighting
Not Talking
People
Seems
Talking
Tv
Sinful
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Every morning, I take a deep breath and then go online to discover what new insult or smear has been thrown in my direction. Whether it's tweets, blogposts or comment threads, the abuse is as relentless as it is vicious.
Mehdi Hasan
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Abuse
Comment
Deep Breath
Insult
Relentless
Take A Deep Breath
Thrown
Vicious
Discover
Smear
Threads
Tweets
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Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.
Maya Angelou
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Author
Family
Insult
Might
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An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth.
Don Rickles
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Comedian
Guy
Insult
Mean
Milton
Unkind
Warmth
Mr
Gave
Johnny
Title
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There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims.
Dennis Prager
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Radio Host
Cartoon
Demonstration
Insult
Islam
Muhammad
Terror
Directed
Muslim
Muslims
Perceived
Unaware
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There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.
James Buchan
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Novelist
Enlightenment
Ignorance
Insult
Persecution
Self
Anyway
Eu
Impose
Muslims
Self-Defeating
Wished
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I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.
Ronan Farrow
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Activist
Children
Father
Insult
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Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.
Herman Melville
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Novelist
Insult
Slave
Tyrants
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I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!
J. K. Rowling
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Novelist
Uncles
Fool
Insult
Magic
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When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and an organic actor, that's an insult. If you're being yourself all the time on screen, that means you don't know how to act.
Neeraj Kabi
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Being Yourself
Insult
Recognise
Time Yourself Me
Time Me Yourself
Organic
People Say
Screen
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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.
Christine Quinn
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American Politician
Insult
Manhattan
West Side
Gay People Way
Context
Liberal
Speaker
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We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.
Oscar Wilde
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Writer
Able
England
Insult
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I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Religious Leader
Positive
Accentuate
Asking
Compliment
Deeper
Effort
Insult
Sarcasm
Suggesting
Virtue
Little
Positive Life Good
Go
Life Good I Am
Am
Through
Endorse
Still
Look
Generously
Voices
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Walter Lippmann
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Writer
Appeals
Citizens
Comeback
Compliment
Evidence
Good Nature
Imposition
Insult
Loan
Opinion
Public Opinion
Citizen
Partisan
Perhaps
Private
Private Citizen
Soon
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Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?
Richard Dawkins
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Ethologist
Wedding
Creator
Insult
Physics
Wine
Cheap
Trick
Invented
Suggest
Violate
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I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.
Robert Purvis
/
Add
Advise
Born
Honestly
Injury
Insult
Insult To Injury
Judging
My Own
Paid
Plot
Soil
Good I Am Me
Fairly
Judge
Bought
Good Me I Am
Stay
Elect
Leave
Ground
Telling
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