I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.

Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.

The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the knee plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent?

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.

He who puts up with insult invites injury.

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.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.