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Insults

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde

Her face was her chaperone. – Rupert Hughes

I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town. – AbeLemons

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. – Rose Macaulay

O, she is the antidote to desire. – William Congreve, Love for Love, 1695

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. – English professor, Ohio University

She has the answer to everything and the solution to nothing. – Oscar Levant

[H]e loves her as the Devil loves Holy Water. – Jonathan Swift

The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief. – S.A. Sachs

Some people should use a glue stick instead of ChapStick. – Author unknown

I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics. – Johnny Mercer, on a British musical

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. – Charles Baudelaire

He who puts up with insult invites injury. – Yiddish Proverb

Insults should be well avenged or well endured. – Scottish Proverb

Slander expires at a good womans door. – Danish proverb

Even rabbits insult an dead lion. – Proverb

Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised. – Proverb

Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both. – Joseph Addison

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible. – Joseph Addison

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. – Marcus Aurelius