Once you’re in the OSP for a while, you’ll learn to take an insult that you’d think was a matter for a duel without limit, smile politely, wait years if need be, and avenge it when the very best time arrives – or hold your revenge forever. Not as immediately satisfying as the Occitan way, […]
Insults Quotes
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.
She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.
When they circumcised him they threw away the wrong bit. (on his Liberal Party colleague Sir Herbert Samuel)
“Perfectly Scandalous” was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.
A viper stung a Cappadocian’s hide, and poisoned by his blood that instant died.
(On the ‘woolly-bearded poet’ Sturge Moore) A sheep in sheep’s clothing.
Very deep. You should send that into Reader’s Digest, they’ve got a page for people like you.