#insult

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#commentary #gay #honesty #lesbian #lgbt

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. ↗

— Moses Hadas

#books #classic-insult #irony #literary-criticism #time

Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#insult #insult

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#simile #witty #insult

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#simile #insult

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#insult

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#insult #insult

Salt. Wound. Together at last. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#insult

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#poetry #insult

Mousedung! ↗

— Erin Hunter

#insults #put-downs #insult