Insulting quotes
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"Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching."
"An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles."
"Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them."
"A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class."
"How would you like to feel the way she looks?"
"I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave."
"I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others."
"Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging."
"A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean"
"Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement."
"Sherlock: You're keeping a SCRAPBOOK. Only old ladies and pre-pubescent girls keep scrapbooks, John. John: It's not a scrapbook, Sherlock. I'm collecting papers relevant to the cases. It helps me remember the details. And it was locked away in my desk drawer. Sherlock: The lock on your desk drawer was insulting me with its pretense at security."
"How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence."
"You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally."
"It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray."
"Really annoys me any time I see Asian fusion too. Asia is a big place; which Asian are you talking about? You notice it's never Uzbek or Tajik food. It's Thai, and it's generally insulting."
"The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined."
"The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English."
"The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all."
"She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it."
"The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race."
