Inspirational Quotes on Insult

“Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.”

“You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?”

“Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.”

“Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.”

“- Where is Polonius? - In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the other place yourself.”

“He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult; and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.”

“That book of [Melancthon], to my mind, deserves not merely to live as long as books are read, but to take its place in the Church canon; whereas your book, by comparison, struck me as so worthless and poor that my heart went out to you for having defiled your lovely, brilliant flow of language with such vile stuff. I thought it outrageous to convey material of so low a quality in the trappings of such rare eloquence; it is like using gold or silver dishes to carry garden rubbish or dung.”

“So, you see, what kept me from rushing in with an answer to you was not the difficulty of so doing, nor pressure of other work, nor the grandeur of your eloquence, nor fear of you, but simply disgust, disinclination, and distaste--which, if I may say so, express my judgment of your Diatribe.”