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It’s funny the way one uses words like insult and offence but only for religion ... You don’t have to feel insulted or offended unless of course you haven’t got an argument in reply. Richard Dawkins, interview Newstalk 20th September 2009
I remember being blamed in a magazine article by one influential left-wing writer, almost personally blamed, for the election of Mrs Thatcher in the last general election. Richard Dawkins, Nice Guys Finish First
An ignorant fool. Richard Dawkins, re Ray Comfort
You do understand that this issue right here of intellectual arrogance is the reason why people like you have a difficult problem with people of faith. I don’t communicate an air of superiority over the people because I know so much more. And if you only read the books I know. And if you only knew the scientists I knew, you would be great like me ... Please, don’t be arrogant. Ted Haggard, to Richard Dawkins
I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. Mark Twain
I went to the theatre last night, and had a good opportunity to study the character of the Mormons. There was about two thousand people assembled, and I must say they were the worst looking crowd in every way I saw. It was a fair sample of the population, and it confirms my previous opinion that they are ‘the scum of the Earth’. Mark Twain, letter to Wisconsin State Journal
Clearly insane ... and insanest upon war and its supreme glories. Mark Twain, re Teddy Roosevelt
I do not believe I could learn to like her except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. Mark Twain in Eruption, re Lilian Aldrich
I didn’t attend the funeral but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. Mark Twain, misattributed, possibly Ebenezer Hoar 1884
All I can really say about you is that you’re a snob, bigot, a racist, a chauvinist and an ignorant insensitive narrow-minded intolerant humourless wart. Alan Ayckbourn, Season’s Greetings starring Michael Cashman & Barbara Flynn & Nicky Henson & Anna Massey & Geoffrey Palmer & Peter Vaughan et al, director Michael A Simpson, Bernard to Harvey, BBC 1980
Die, you bastard, die. Tilbury Dockers, telegram to General Franco on deathbed
‘Patience protects me from insults.’ Inside the Mind of Leonardo, starring Peter Capaldi, Sky Arts 2013
Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail. Edouard Manet
The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me ... People don’t realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted. Edouard Manet
If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it. Gary Lineker
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face. John Ruskin, re Whistler’s Nocturne
Brian Sewell is a fool. For some years he seemed to have it in for me and Hockney and Kitaj. Even if he wasn’t writing about us he’d always find a way of bringing us in. He’d say, ‘So and so was a bad artist but not as bad as Hockney, Kitaj or Blake.’ Things like that. Peter Blake
You’re a sharp-clawed treacherous little peacock. The Ten Commandments 1956 starring Yul Brynner & Anne Baxter & Charlton Heston & Edward G Robinson & Yvonne De Carlo & Debra Paget & John Derek & Sir Cedric Hardwicke & Vincent Price et al, producer & director Cecil B DeMille, Brynner to Nefretiri
The Pope is the true son of the devil, a bad man, an antichrist, and abominable tyrant. King Edward VI
[sings] We will win. We have confidence. In the victory. In Good over Evil [rips picture of Pope]. Fight the real enemy. Sinead O’Connor
God Hates Fags. Westboro Baptist Church protest banner
Fags Eat Poop. Westboro Baptist Church protest banner
So what if our guys flushed copies of the Quran down the toilet? We hope they did. They probably did; We hope they flush more. Mohammed was a demon-possessed whoremonger and pedophile who contrived a 300-page work of satanic fiction: The Quran! Like America’s own whoremonger and pedophile wangled his own hokey Book of Mormon! Fred Phelps, Westboro Baptist Church
The only true Jews are Christians. The rest of the people who claim to be Jews aren’t, and they are nothing more than typical, impenitent sinners ... The vast majority of Jews support fags. In fact, it is the official policy of Reformed Jews to support same-sex marriage. Of course, there are Jews who still believe God’s law, but most of them have even departed from that. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Jew or a Gentile ... as long as you believe in Christ. Fred Phelps, Westboro Baptist Church
You stupid fucking blabbermouth cunt. The Sopranos s1e9: Boca starring James Gandolfini & Lorriane Bracco & Edie Falco & Michael Imperioli & Dominic Chianese & Steven van Zandt & Tony Sirico & Robert Iler et al, Uncle Junior to Bobbi, HBO 1999
That selfish miserable cunt. The Sopranos s3e2: Proshai Livushka, re mother