Quotes: Insult

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.

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.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

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.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

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