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Letter "I" » insulting
«The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.»
«I am a poor man, but I would gladly give ten shillings to find out who sent me the insulting Christmas card I received this morning.»
Author: George Grossmith
(Comedian, Entertainer)
| Keywords:
card, Christmas Card, gladly, insulting, shilling, shillings
«Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.»
«When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'»
«The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.»
Author: Wilma Scott Heide
| Keywords:
immobilize, immobilizes, immobilizing, insulting, move up, subtly
«To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.»
«It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.»
«You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expression, nor show too much pleasure ; but endeavor to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression, that may be»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Communication,
Victory
| Keywords:
adversary, console, dissatisfied, dissatisfying, insulting, triumphing
«It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking»
«I know something about Mr. Khrushchev. ...Mr. Khrushchev himself, it is said, told the story about the Russian who began to run through the Kremlin shouting, 'Khrushchev is a fool, Khrushchev is a fool.' He was sentanced, he said, to twenty-three years in prison: three for insulting the party secretary, and twenty for revealing a state secret.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
began, insulting, Khrushchev, kremlin, revealing, run through, Russian, secretaries, secretary, Secretary of State, shouting, The Party, The Story, twenty-three
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