Insults

Famous quotes containing the word insults:

“Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Women receive
the insults of men
with tolerance,
having been bitten
in the nipple
by their toothless gums.”
—Dilys Laing (1906–1960)

“A potent quack, long versed in human ills,
Who first insults the victim whom he kills;
Whose murd’rous hand a drowsy bench protect,
And whose most tender mercy is neglect.”
—George Crabbe (1754–1832)