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

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

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial.' For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater 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 like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

Whatever insults my State insults me.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

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

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

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

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

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.