The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can’t ignore it, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh at it; if you can’t laugh at it, it’s probably deserved. Russell Lynes
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. G K Chesterton
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud
A show of envy is an insult to oneself. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home. James Thurber
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute. Paul Gallico
He can’t see a belt without hitting below it. (On Lloyd George) Margot Asquith