What do you do when someone insults you? You can let it roll off your back or you can come up with the perfect comeback. If you want the perfect comeback, we’ve got you covered. In this blog post, we’ll be sharing some of the best insult quotes to help you hit back with a witty retort. From ancient quips to modern-day zingers, there’s something to suit everyone’s style. So, read on and get ready to have the last word!
The best insult quotes
1. Being insulted by a smart–mouthed little punk like you.. really pisses me off! — Sui Ishida, Tokyo Ghoul, tome 1
2. It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason. — Thomas Jefferson
3. To say ‘we’ and mean ‘I’ is one of the most recondite insults. — Theodor Adorno
4. The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you cant ignore it, top it; if you cant top it, laugh at it; if you cant laugh at it, its probably deserved — Russell Lynes
5. Oh, are we at the insult part of the breakup?’ she says. ‘Because I got in a lot of practice after what happened with Will. I have several choice things to say about her nose. — Veronica Roth
6. Was it an insult to be called a ‘woman writer’? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the ‘woman driver’? — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
7. If you say that you never lie in life, you honestly insult my intelligence. — Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
8. All assassins had a full–length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed. — Terry Pratchett
9. Oh, are we at the insult part of the breakup?’ she says. ‘Because I got in a lot of practice after what happened with Will. I have several choice things to say about her nose. — Veronica Roth
10. I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said. — William F. Buckley
11. Poets should be law–givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day’s work. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. Don’t insult me today just because I’m poor, you don’t know what my future holds! — William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
13. I don’t have to write jokes. I don’t have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough. — Rachael Ray
14. ‘who’s calling?””Don’t insult me like that, ” the voice says.I stop. Was I just insulting?’ — Peter Hedges, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
15. Fake people will insult you infront of the whole world but those who are true to you will insult you more but in private. — Shizra
16. The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you cant ignore it, top it; if you cant top it, laugh at it; if you cant laugh at it, its probably deserved — Russell Lynes
17. It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult. — Oswald Chambers
18. Youtube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on Youtube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it. — Salman Rushdie
19. If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250, 000–word novel, a work of fiction. — Salman Rushdie
20. Anyone with a form of godliness is promoting ungodliness, whether ignorantly or knowingly. — Sunday Adelaja, Insulted by Ungodliness: Raising a Generation of the Provoked in Every Nation
21. When you stop doing what insults your Soul, your Journey accelerates and your Life beings to fill with joy. — Sue Fitzmaurice
22. Christians believe in a big God but do small things and this is a big insult to God. — Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
23. Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions. — Winston Churchill
24. Thou hast added insult to injury. — Phaedrus
25. Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime. — Molly Ringle, What Scotland Taught Me
26. Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war. — Thomas Jefferson
27. Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered. — Oscar Wilde
28. It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus — to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
29. Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime. — Molly Ringle, What Scotland Taught Me
30. Re–examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. — Walt Whitman
31. I don’t mind personal insults, but when you insult the jokes that I tell you’re insulting Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Burns and Allen, Trevor McGee and Molly Picon. — Milton Berle
32. Envy is an insult to oneself. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
33. Tanner: I think that I might kiss you to keep your lips busy with something other than insulting me.Ella: If you think you can do it without getting lost. — Melissa Lemon, Cinder and Ella
34. The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
35. Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind. — Robert Green Ingersoll
36. Was it an insult to be called a ‘woman writer’? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the ‘woman driver’? — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
37. I’m going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80’s as is humanly possible. — Noel Gallagher
38. To place Jesus Christ in the class of mystics is an insult to the Highest. — Paul Bamikole
39. My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day? — Nora Roberts
40. Tanner: I think that I might kiss you to keep your lips busy with something other than insulting me.Ella: If you think you can do it without getting lost. — Melissa Lemon, Cinder and Ella
41. We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record. — Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron
42. When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender. — Sathya Sai Baba
43. It is a shameful thing to insult a child. — Mark Twain
44. To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me. — Michael Stipe
45. I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I’d hate it if an American did a British accent and didn’t do it well. It would be insulting. — Tracey Ullman
46. Tanner: I think that I might kiss you to keep your lips busy with something other than insulting me.Ella: If you think you can do it without getting lost. — Melissa Lemon, Cinder and Ella
47. Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle. — Patrick Ness
48. When you stop doing what insults your Soul, your Journey accelerates and your Life beings to fill with joy. — Sue Fitzmaurice
49. Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade of the cloud of arrows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. If you say that you never lie in life, you honestly insult my intelligence. — Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Conclusion
Insult quotes can be funny and entertaining, but they can also be hurtful and damaging. It’s important to remember that words have power, and while they can be used to bring people together, they can also be used to hurt and divide. Be mindful of the words you choose and the impact they can have on others.
