#insult

In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people. All the Communists who were hanged at the time by other Communists were awarded such abuse. Unlike those who had their feet solidly on the ground, they were said to float in the air. So it was fair, in a way, that as punishment the ground was permanently pulled out from under their feet, that they remained suspended a little above the floor. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#gallows-humour #hanged #insult #intellectual #life

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#love #men #love

to call a man without the Holy Spirit "upright and God-fearing" is the same as calling Belial "Christ". ↗

— Martin Luther

#holy-spirit

You," Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, "are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're inconvenient, embarassing, no real threat, and you simply will not go away. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#simile #simile

I've got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat you over the head with it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#insult

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#books #fact #get #great #i

You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#insult #beauty

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

— Lionel Blue

#discrimination #insults #jews #luther #martin

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#hand #i #insults #respond #well

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#certain #declare #either #fools #inhabitants