"Insult" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to squabble here, Or insult back to render; But may you wither soon, my dear, Although ...
— Faust Part 1 • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
... say, to the allowance of any half dozen of these poor boys for the day. I could, with all my heart, have pulled the victuals out of my pocket and given it to them: but I did not like to do that which would have interrupted the march, and might have been construed into a sort of insult. To quiet my conscience, however, I gave a poor man that I met soon afterwards sixpence, under pretence of rewarding him for telling me the way to Thursley, which I knew as well as he, and which I had determined, in my own ...
— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker
... We but insult ourselves to stay. (Exit Portia and Gratiano. Shylock looks after them. Enter Antonio, sees Shylock, walks over to him and touches him with ...
— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various
... you need not put up with an insult in any public place in Europe. I tell you so, who ...
— The Cornet of Horse - A Tale of Marlborough's Wars • G. A. Henty
... that had emerged from the tent flaps to wave me off; and when I also inquired after these, Louis' face darkened. He told me bluntly I was asking too many questions and began to swear in a mongrel jargon of French and English that my conduct was an insult he would take from no man. But Louis was ever short of temper. I remembered that of old. Presently his little flare-up died down, and he told me that the woman and her husband had gone north through the woods to join some crews on the Upper Ottawa. From the talk of the others, ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
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