Top 110 Insult Quotes

Adding ‘just kidding’ doesn’t make it okay to insult the Principal.

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

Envy is an insult to oneself.

I don’t write about Google except to insult the company.

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.

To insult someone we call him ‘bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‘human’ might be the greater insult.

There’s a difference between an actual insult and a friendly jab. So I don’t think I’m offensive onstage.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

I served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force and currently serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Yet I still experience people telling me to ‘go back’ to China or North Korea or Japan. Like many immigrants, I have learned to brush off this racist insult.

I like insult comics. Joan Rivers, Dame Edna, people like that.

The days when the words ‘Hollywood actor’ framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics – candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike – is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

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.

I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, as long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen.

I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

I have cancelled shows before for knowing full well that my heart was not in it at that moment. Why? Because its an insult to the audience.

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.

I know it’s dangerous to say you want to do something different with a genre because people always take that as an insult to the genre.

Fans insult me and call me ‘monkey.’ At first, I was quite shocked, but now I do not give it importance.

It’s not polite to refuse to dress for a parly. It’s an insult to your hostess. After all, correct dress is a part of good manners.

It’s really the tone that people use to convey things sometimes that can either become a compliment or an insult. It’s not always what you are saying, it’s about how you say it.

‘Noah’ is an insult to Bible-believing Christians, an insult to the character of Noah and, most of all, an insult to the God of the Bible. As a result, I believe Hollywood will have a much harder time in marketing future biblically-themed movies to Christians.

Don’t call my lyrics poetry. It’s an insult to real poets.

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.

I’m not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.

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.

Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.

Social media has become a high school playground where the challenge is what idiot can come up with the best insult, and do you end up congratulating them for it?

We want to offer people a show that doesn’t insult their intelligence, and really, it’s a fun show to watch. It’s a fast-paced show to watch and has the best wrestling action, but also has the best wrestling personalities. I want everyone to know that AEW is for everybody.

That was it – I lost my job… I was very discouraged. I wanted to be in defense work… I’m an American, and I have nothin’ to do with Japan, and so it’s sort of an insult to me.

I guess I feel the most powerful when someone tries to take my power or belittle me or insult me, and it doesn’t work.

The peddling of anti-Semitic stereotypes is an insult to a community that has suffered throughout history from the use of such imagery to create the myth of ‘the great Jewish conspiracy.’

Women’s football in its right is something to celebrate and the quality and the achievement of all the females I represent, it is an insult to them that we talk about women’s football being a step down.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.

Granted, everybody is different, but I think it’s real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don’t insult them, or take something for granted.

Growing up a lot of people said I played like a guy. They thought it was an insult, but I was like, ‘That’s fine, I don’t care.’

The worst insult you can give a professional athlete is to call them soft. And the stereotype out there is that gay is soft.

No one much wants to be belittled, but we tolerate slurs surprisingly often for ourselves; for our lionised children, we demand freedom from insult.

We’re quick to complain about racism, sexism, homophobia, but it’s not as bad as people make out. If we’re going to be more cohesive, we have to be more relaxed about petty incidents and not find insult where none exists.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,’ I says, ‘but don’t insult me poor bleedin’ country.

I think the biggest insult, the worst way you can offend a Mexican, is to insult their mother. A mother is the most sacred thing in life.

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.

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.

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 truth is that I’m a very down-to-earth person. I’ve been called a brat but that’s an insult to my parents. They didn’t raise a brat. I’m not an immature, insensitive person.

I wish the American public wasn’t so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.

‘The Satanic Verses’ was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

When people say there is a ‘reason’ for the depression, they insult the person who suffers, making it seem that those in agony are somehow at fault for not ‘cheering up.’ The fact is that those who suffer – and those who love them – are no more at fault for depression than a cancer patient is for a tumor.

Personality cults are an insult to Islam.

I wanted to see how much of an insult it was to be called an ignoramus. I didn’t know what it meant; I just Googled it.

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.

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it’s a point of pride in a weird way.

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

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

It’s hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he’s like, ‘You speak so well!’ I’m like, ‘What do you mean? Do you understand that’s an insult?

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.

Being fierce is a compliment! It’s not an insult.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Everyone’s so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it’s like we’re all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

Pro wrestling is not fake; it’s sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we’re not going to insult anyone’s intelligence – there is a predetermined winner. It’s just the fans don’t know who it is, and that’s what makes it so intriguing.

In many ways, anti-anti-Trumpism mirrors Donald Trump himself because, at its core there are no fixed values, no respect for constitutional government or ideas of personal character – only a free-floating nihilism cloaked in insult, mockery, and bombast.

The Informe should no longer be the scene used to insult, beat, and criticize on the basis of preconfigured conceptions.

People do look at it as an insult that I say I don’t listen to country music, which cracks me up.

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

You know how only you can insult your own family? That’s how I feel about Florida.

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.

If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn’t be funny.

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.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

You know, it’s such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

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.

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.

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.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

The issues we hear Donald Trump talking about are just so contrary to who we are as a people. They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves.

Never insult anyone by accident.

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

Millions of dollars’ worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader’s intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

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.

‘Fake’ used to be an insult, but now it’s a badge of honour, with hair extensions, tans and nails all artificial, but looking fabulous.

Whenever the word ‘weird’ is mentioned it can only be an insult.

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

Unless you insult my mother or something, there is not much you could say to me that would really bother me.

It’s fitting that an insult largely aimed at youth has made children of those who use it. ‘Snowflake’ reminds us how much we need climate change… in politics.

It’s a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.

I don’t mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, it’s pretty straightforward. If you say, ‘I love you,’ you mean ‘I love you.’ There isn’t time for anything more.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer’s as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have.

Insult comedy has been around forever. I can make fun of people, and they won’t get mad at me.

As a Muslim, I like to watch Fox News for the same reason I like to play ‘Call of Duty.’ Sometimes, I like to turn my brain off and watch strangers insult my family and heritage.

Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked.

We have 5000-year-old history which is now almost a part of our DNA. How do you break that? America, for example, doesn’t have that history behind it. It romanticizes rebellion. We look down upon rebellion. It’s an insult. To think out-of-the-box is looked down upon here.

Social networking sites are an easy way to insult people. People have sent me messages saying that they are praying for me to get injured. Such messages are not nice, because I love playing football: I love playing for my club; I love playing football for Ghana.

The only reason I was allowed to have a career for a quarter century as an insult comic is because it’s all in jest and all for fun.

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.

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.

If you can’t ignore an insult, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh it off; and if you can’t laugh it off, it’s probably deserved.

I just don’t believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

It’s so hard for me to insult people.

While the American people have had a big heart, President Trump has had a big mouth, and he has used it to insult the people of Puerto Rico.

When you’re young, you don’t have much sense. You don’t have any reasoning power. You don’t have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.

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.

An ‘insult comic’ is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

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.

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.

TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they’re so bad and uninformed. It’s insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC’s, we all laugh at TechCrunch.

You can insult me – you can judge me on the football pitch – that’s normal. But don’t touch my family. Don’t touch my parents. I love them more than everything on this earth.

Reclaiming the word ‘fat’ was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that’s ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

I love women. I’m trying to do beautiful things with them. I’m not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.

It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I don’t celebrate my humiliations and my insults.