Home › I › Insult

Insult: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

I demens! et sævas curre per Alpes, Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias. Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation.— JUVENAL — Satira. X. 166.

Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt. They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves.— PLAUTUS — Menæchmi. V. 2. 90.

Insanus omnis furere credit ceteros. Every madman thinks all other men mad.— SYRUS — Maxims.

Quid facies tibi, Injuriæ qui addideris contumeliam? What will thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? U— PHEDRUS — Fabula. V. 3. 4.

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