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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. Jean Jacques Rousseau Insults 283
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. William Shakespeare Insults 230
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is contempt prior to examination. Herbert Spencer Insults 175
Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me. Socrates Insults 145
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. Louis Nizer Insults 138
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. Rene Descartes Insults 133
I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy. NiccolÃ² Machiavelli Insults 117
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. Norton Juster Insults 111
The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. Theodore Roosevelt Insults 106
Insults should be well avenged or well endured. Scottish Proverbs Insults 101
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. Raoul Vaneigem Insults 101
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Lord Chesterfield Insults 100
The best way to procure insults is to submit to them. William Hazlitt Insults 99
You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job. William Shakespeare Insults 93
Even rabbits insult an dead lion. Proverbs Insults 92
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written. Samuel Johnson Insults 92
Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears. Plautus Insults 91
Slander cannot destroy the man ... when the flood recedes, the rock is there. Chinese Proverb Insults 87
It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you. Mark Twain Insults 87
It is easy to forgive an insult, but harder to forget one. Michael Lipsey Insults 85
What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it. Oscar Wilde Insults 81
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. Edgar Allan Poe Insults 79
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. Bertrand Russell Insults 78
They lie deadly that tell you have good faces. William Shakespeare Insults 78
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud Insults 76
You speak an infinite deal of nothing. William Shakespeare Insults 76
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. Benjamin Franklin Insults 73
Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised. Proverbs Insults 71
He who puts up with insult invites injury. Yiddish Proverbs Insults 71
Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once. William Shakespeare Insults 69
She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it. Oscar Wilde Insults 68
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters;But when low dunces will affront,What man alive can stand the brunt? Jonathan Swift Insults 67
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk. Moliere Insults 67
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. Sam Brown Insults 67
The habit of sneering marks the egotist, the fool, or the knave, or all three. Johann Lavater Insults 66
Oppression is more easily endured than insult. Junius Insults 66
A generous confession disarms slander. Thomas Fuller Insults 65
Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion. George Washington Insults 64
If your brains were dynamite there wouldnt be enough to blow your hat off. Kurt Vonnegut Insults 62
Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect. Arthur Schopenhauer Insults 58
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. Marcus Aurelius Insults 56
You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense. Ken Keyes Jr.Insults 56
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. Tacitus Insults 56
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. George Bancroft Insults 55
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Adlai Stevenson Insults 52
Youre awfully small to be so hugely irritating. Stephenie Meyer Insults 51
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity. Johann Lavater Insults 51
You ignorant little slug the Trunchbull bellowed. You witless weed You emptyheaded hamster You stupid glob of glue Roald Dahl Insults 50
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)Insults 49
It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking. Epictetus Insults 47

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