#insulting

Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite. ↗

— Joanne Harris

#superstition #nature

I remembered that Johnson had declared portrait painting to be an improper employment for a woman. “Public practice of any art and staring in men’s faces is very indelicate in a female,” he had said. Well I’d seen Dr. Johnson’s face in the book’s frontispiece and I couldn’t imagine anyone male or female wanting to stare into it for any length of time —the man was an absolute toad. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#insulting #lol #art

I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#ego #insulting #old-man #punch #ego

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion. ↗

— Edward Bond

#dramatist #his #i #insulting #opinion

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#american #before #british #coach #dialogue

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? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#claims #diligently #elizabeth #enough #explaining

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. ↗

— James Welch

#i #i think #insulting #labels #people

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

— Dick Gregory

#boy #deal #expressions #i #insulting

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

— Dustin Hoffman

#director #i #i think #insulting #interpretation

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

— e. e. cummings

#black #dislike #him #individual #insulting