Insults Quotes

Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosex...

YOUNG MORTIMER:Thou proud disturber of thy country's peace,Corrupter of thy king, cause of these bro...

Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.

Apparently he was not the sharpest quill on the porcupine if you get my drift.

Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.

To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.

A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way i...

What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.

An idiot child screaming in a hospital." (on George Bernard Shaw)

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling...

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the ri...

I take him to McDonald's just to watch him eat and see the numbers change.

He loves to eat - he puts mayonnaise on an aspirin.

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts Old age is slow in both.

He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insu...

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

It takes your enemy and your friend working together to hurt you to the heart the one to slander y...

Every word she writes is a lie including and and the.

Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."(on Lillian Hellman)

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (...

Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, h...

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

I’d heard you were dead.”"I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t...

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put ...

Some people can carry a tune but they seem to stagger under the load.

He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later tha...

Cheap? If he was at the Last Supper he would have asked for separate checks!

You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]

A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a ...

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumnia...

Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

All raw, uncooked, protesting."(on Aldous Huxley)

I am reading Henry James… and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Good...

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe."(on Mark Twain)

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."(on Ernest Hemingw...

Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a ...

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten.

Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?

How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects ...

Why, if you only knew the secrets to which I'm p

The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”“The only honest things I can say to...

. . . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.

You look lousy,' he said. Jace blinked. 'Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you in...