Insults

Insults are expressions, statements (or sometimes behavior) which is considered degrading and offensive. Insults may be intentional or accidental. An example of the latter is a well-intended simple explanation, which in fact is superfluous, but is given due to underestimating the intelligence or knowledge of the other.

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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 398.

• Qui se laisse outrager, mérite qu'on l'outrage
  Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.
  • He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases!
  • Pierre Corneille, Heraclius, I. 2.

• Kein Heiligthum heisst uns den Schimpf ertragen.
  • No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso, III. 3. 191.

• Quid facies tibi,
  Injuriæ qui addideris contumeliam?
  • What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury?
  • Phaedrus, Fables, V. 3. 4.

• Contumeliam si dices, audies.
  • If you speak insults you will hear them also.
  • Plautus, Pseudolus, Act IV. 7. 77.

• Sæpe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.
  • It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
  • Seneca, De Ira, II. 32.