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"Only cowards insult dying majesty." Aesop 3.5238 average rating  
"A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt." Gilbert Keith Chesterton 4.8000 average rating  
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means." Clarence Seward Darrow 4.0000 average rating  
"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me." Frederick Douglass 4.6364 average rating  
"I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable." (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards)" Lizzy Gardiner 1.6667 average rating  
"He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.0000 average rating  
"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves." Claude Adrien Helvetius 4.0000 average rating  
"There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble." Sinclair Lewis 4.0000 average rating  
"If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved." J. Russel Lynes 4.9048 average rating  
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." Oscar Wilde 4.8077 average rating  
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." Oscar Wilde 4.8889 average rating  
"She wore too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman." Oscar Wilde 5.0000 average rating  
"By giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it [modern journalism] keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." Oscar Wilde 4.6000 average rating  
"They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California." Frank Lloyd Wright 5.0000 average rating  
"I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it." Groucho Marx 4.7368 average rating  
"Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you, he really is an idiot." Groucho Marx 4.9167 average rating  
"I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it!" Groucho Marx 4.7500 average rating  
"You're the reason our kids are so ugly." Groucho Marx 4.8000 average rating  
"He's a male chauvinistic piglet." Groucho Marx 1.7500 average rating  
"Gerald Ford was unknown throughout America. Now he's unknown throughout the world." Groucho Marx 2.3333 average rating  
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