Quotes on Insulted

Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.

Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works.

All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.

I've never been insulted by hateful satanists for not believing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not believing in their God.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.

Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?

The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.

We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.