Invective Quotes

All of us try to persuade our fellow citizens to see our point of view and that is the way public opinion is created in a democracy. It seems to me, however, we might achieve our aim with a little less violent invective and blackening of the individual character, for on both sides motives are probably good. The real difference is in the methods that are advocate.

Thou whoreson, senseless villain!

God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell god damn your god damned family's god damned hellfired god damned soul to hell and god damn your god damn friends to hell.

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.

As history shows, verbal attacks on the Jewish people are portends of more savage criminality to come.

A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!

True invective requires great imagination.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall short. Because name-calling does nothing to improve understanding or move the political debate forward.

Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.

O braggart vile and damned furious wight!

I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

I'm trying to cut down my cursing.

On paper, swearing takes on a different attitude. It can make you sound very angry when you use it a lot.

A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navy blanch.

I swear like a sailor, assuming the sailor in question died in 1800 and was really square.

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.