Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you`d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
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.
G.K. Chesterton
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington
[on John Ford] He was so egomaniacal. He would never rehearse, didn`t want to talk about a part. If an actor started to ask questions he`d either take those pages and tear them out of the script or insult him in an awful way. He loved getting his shot on ...
Henry Fonda
Bosie [from the movie Wilde] was the first part I was ever offered, which I suppose is sort of an insult because he`s just the nastiest bastard!
Jude Law
I hate lateness. I hate people who are late. There is no excuse for turning up late for anything. I`ve never been late for anything in my life. I was actually born a week premature, because I wanted to be early for my own birth. Being late is an insult to...
Ricky Gervais
It`s funny, [...] for that sequence the director just said, say something insulting to him, it doesn`t matter what. So I said something pretty insulting, and they didn`t subtitle it, and they never asked me what it meant. [..] (Laughter) (on the insult he...
Brandon Lee
The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I`ve got to eat everything on the plate, whether it`s good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.
Amy Camp
People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn`t completely insult them.
Winona Ryder
It will be nice when he returns. Any team would like him in the lineup. But we`ve been focusing on winning games, and other guys are playing. It would be an insult to them to be thinking of him.
Mike Matheny