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Insults
«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.»
«Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone»
Author: Arab Proverb
| About:
Compliments,
Insults
| Keywords:
carved, carved in stone, compliments, insults
«A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.»
«A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Gentlemen,
Insults,
Intention
| Keywords:
feelings, gentleman, hurts, The Gentlemen, unintentionally
«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.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Apologies,
Insults
| Keywords:
apologies, apology, compensated, compensates, compensating, healed, injured, injured party, injuring, insult, party, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, wronged
«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.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Desire,
Insults,
Peace
| Keywords:
instruments, repel, repelled, repelling, repels
«I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Funny,
Insults,
witty
| Keywords:
a lot, egged, egging, eggs, egg on, hard-boiled, hard-boiled egg, hardboiled, lot, meet up with, met, minutes, The Eggs, The Met, time, twenties, twenty