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Quotes about insults
Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both. (Addison Joseph)
By indignities men come to dignities. (Addison Joseph)
I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present. (Addison Joseph)
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. (Addison Joseph)
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. (Addison Joseph)
Calumny is only the noise of madmen. (Addison Joseph)
It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking. (Addison Joseph)
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. (Addison Joseph)
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute. (Addison Joseph)
You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult. (Addison Joseph)
The best way to procure insults is to submit to them. (Addison Joseph)
Oppression is more easily endured than insult. (Addison Joseph)
The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the knee plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent? (Addison Joseph)
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. (Addison Joseph)
Even rabbits insult an dead lion. (Addison Joseph)
Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised. (Addison Joseph)
He who puts up with insult invites injury. (Addison Joseph)
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. (Addison Joseph)
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. (Addison Joseph)
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. (Addison Joseph)
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