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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, man of letters.
If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
Dr.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer.
There are two insults which no human will endure; the assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) American novelist.
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.
Paul Gallico (1897-1976) American novelist.
Whatever be the motive of an insult it is always best to overlook it; for folly scarcely can deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
Johnson.
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
Hazlitt.
Injuries may be atoned for and forgiven; but insults admit of no compensation; they degrade the mind in its own esteem, and force it to recover its level by revenge.
Junius.
The greater part of mankind are more sensitive to contemptuous language, than to unjust acts; they can less easily bear insult than wrong.
Plutarch.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Fielding.
He who puts up with insult invites injury.
Proverb.
The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a eave of the hand, is often the ne plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent?
Julia kavanagh.
Oppression is more easily borne than insult.
Junius.
It is the nature of some minds to insult and tyrannize over little people, this being the means they use to recompense themselves for their extreme servility and condescension to their superiors. Slaves and flatterers exact the same taxes on all below them which they pay to all above them.
Fielding.
I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.
Buxton.
Fate never wounds more deeply the generous heart, than when a blockhead’s insult points the dart.
Johnson.
Like a cushion, he always bore the impress of the last man who sat on him.
When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit.
She looked as through butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth or anywhere else.
A triumph of the embalmer’s art.
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
I have always said about Tony that he immatures with age.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, man of letters.
If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
Dr.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer.
There are two insults which no human will endure; the assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) American novelist.
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.
Paul Gallico (1897-1976) American novelist.
Whatever be the motive of an insult it is always best to overlook it; for folly scarcely can deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
Johnson.
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
Hazlitt.
Injuries may be atoned for and forgiven; but insults admit of no compensation; they degrade the mind in its own esteem, and force it to recover its level by revenge.
Junius.
The greater part of mankind are more sensitive to contemptuous language, than to unjust acts; they can less easily bear insult than wrong.
Plutarch.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Fielding.
He who puts up with insult invites injury.
Proverb.
The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a eave of the hand, is often the ne plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent?
Julia kavanagh.
Oppression is more easily borne than insult.
Junius.
It is the nature of some minds to insult and tyrannize over little people, this being the means they use to recompense themselves for their extreme servility and condescension to their superiors. Slaves and flatterers exact the same taxes on all below them which they pay to all above them.
Fielding.
I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.
Buxton.
Fate never wounds more deeply the generous heart, than when a blockhead’s insult points the dart.
Johnson.
Like a cushion, he always bore the impress of the last man who sat on him.
When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit.
She looked as through butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth or anywhere else.
A triumph of the embalmer’s art.
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
I have always said about Tony that he immatures with age.
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