Top 77 Insulting Quotes

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don’t think your work is quite as universal.

Instead of insulting our teachers and tearing down public education, I believe in a Kentucky where we put students and teachers first – and I’ll work to do just that by fixing some of the greatest challenges they face every day.

I think it’s very insulting to say, ‘White people don’t understand.’ What are you talking about? You’re part of the problem then if you’re… speaking and labeling all white people, saying they don’t understand the issue or saying they can’t relate. That’s really not giving people much credit, is it?

For myself and the Players Coalition, it was never about the money or having our voices bought. To hear people call me or anyone else a sell-out is insulting. It has always been, and will always be, about lifting the voices of the people and the work of those that fight for them.

People will come up and say – and it is insulting – ‘Do you ever want to do anything else? Like some real acting? Or a real show?’ Here’s the thing: You can either get upset about that, or you can realize that that person isn’t trying to offend you. They’re literally interested, and they’re asking you a question.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It’s just garbage. It’s insulting to the readers.

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

One of the best things you can do to get on an engineer’s good side is make him feel as much like a regular person as possible, without insulting his intelligence. Say things like, ‘You’re too cool to be an engineer,’ or ‘Nice kicks!’ or ‘You don’t seem lonely at all.’ Note: This only works on male engineers.

While Donald Trump is busy insulting one group after another, Hillary Clinton understands that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths. Yes. We become stronger when black and white, Latino, Asian-American, Native American – when all of us stand together.

To claim that ISIS is Islamic is egregiously inaccurate and empirically unsustainable, not to mention insulting to the 1.6 billion non-violent adherents of Islam across the planet.

It’s insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

I think it’s insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

I don’t like this word, ‘Feminazis,’ or ‘libtard.’ I don’t like these words, because I feel there’s no true understanding of the word ‘feminism,’ there’s no understanding of the word ‘liberal,’ and I find these very derogatory and insulting.

Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn’t learned to be civil – note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.

I’ve run into a lot of companies that invent positions for great people just so they don’t get away. But hiring people when you don’t have real work for them is insulting to them and hurtful to you.

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

Insulting people doesn’t make you brave, bold, cool or courageous.

When an oil company executive tells American families that we don’t need to be concerned with tar sands pipeline safety, it’s not only misleading, it’s insulting.

I’ve stopped reading about the death of books because it’s wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

As a woman, I’d be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general.

I think women were just accepted more as songwriters when they sat on a stool with a guitar and had scruffy hair. It was quite insulting really, because it was like saying that if you’re pretty and slim and glamorous there’s no way anything could be going on between your ears, you just like doing your makeup.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That’s generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.

I think it’s a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.

Empathy is why entertainment is always growing, and for millennials, everyone is judging them and trying to grab their attention by insulting them. We’re living in a time where everyone has 25 profiles, and they’re having 25 conversations.

In popular culture, when women compete, it’s usually over a man, and it’s usually very nasty. And that is just frankly not my experience. That’s just some kind of popular mythology, it feels like. I find it insulting.

I make sure not to do anything which can be insulting for women- something very common in Punjabi films.

This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there’s a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas – because they simply don’t know about its existence or they don’t know how it operates.

If you don’t speak Spanish, then don’t accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.

To suggest the President of the United States and the head of the free world – the man who is changing the world – is being manipulated by Mitch McConnell is insulting to the president; it’s absolutely insulting.

I don’t share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region – that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.

To compare the United States of America – the beacon of the free world – to the brutal North Korean dictatorship is as insulting as it is asinine.

Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

I guess I tell jokes a lot, but I’m not really that sure because sometimes they don’t laugh, and they just stare at me like I said something insulting.

Insulting players and coaches and spitting on us is simply wrong. You cannot go out and walk around town and just start insulting people or spit at them either.

We come from that school where we don’t believe we’re different from you, and it’s insulting to me on some kind of weird level that musicians are put on a pedestal.

When I see the American flag, I go, ‘Oh my God, you’re insulting me.’

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’

I was a very bad student. I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn’t want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

Is Trump correct that we should stop the flow of illegal immigrants? Yes, but again, words matter, and there is a way to engage voters on this issue without creating fear and insulting many hard-working Hispanics who love this country.

Flats are being sold for 1 lakh per square feet even though the poor can’t even afford one meal in the day. It’s an inhuman and insulting display of wealth, and I wanted my movie’s title, ‘City of Gold,’ as well as the title song to reflect that.

In the end, I do think it’s insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

There’s something about me that suggests I don’t have an intelligent atom in me at all. So people say things to me that they wouldn’t say to other people. Insulting, condescending things. They don’t think I notice. But, of course, I’m taking it all in.

I’m not going to lie – it’s insulting to be praised for being a ‘woman’ with ‘no college degree.’

The word ’embarrassing’ is an insulting word, to tell you the truth.

Insult is in the ear of the listener. Statements of fact cannot be insulting unless you feel that the label applied indicates some failing, moral or otherwise, in yourself.

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

The gas man came one day, and he said, ‘What does your husband do?’ so I told him, and he said, ‘What’s the use of that?’ He had a point, but on the other hand, I firmly believed in Stephen and his brilliance. I encouraged him to popularise his science just because the gas man had been so insulting.