#insults

how devastated I am to say that I will not be present at your petite soiree on June 10th. Unfortunately, the exceptionally weak drinks you ordinarily serve at these occasions are not sufficient to dull my senses to your boyfriend's futile efforts to grope me in the hallway. ↗

— Lady Arabella Snark

#insults #snark #humor

a quite novel kind of grammar and logic, according to which what is something is nothing ↗

— Martin Luther

#grammar

You look lousy,' he said. Jace blinked. 'Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.' 'No I mean it. You don't look good.' 'This is from a guy ho has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look, I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-' 'I am not trying to insult you.' Simon snapped. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #insults #jace-lightwood #simon-lewis #humor

How can I deal with annoying persons in a way that utterly crushes them witohut tarnishing my carefully developed reputation or extending my already lengthy prison sentence? ↗

— Lady Arabella Snark

#insults #snark #humor

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#insults #inspirational

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#endure #human #human being #humor #insults

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#funny

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting. ↗

— Epictetus

#insults #opinion #strikes #these #things