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.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

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.

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

If you cant ignore an insult top it if you cant top it laugh it off and if you cant laugh it off its probably deserved.

A truly appreciative child will break lose spoil or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

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.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.