Quotes about Insults

Maj. Horace Applegate: I don't like to say so at this moment sir, but everybody knows you're crazy.

- Charles Ruggles (as Maj. Horace Applegate) in Bringing up Baby (1938)

Capt. Hobart: Don't fling your French at me!
Dr. Peter Blood: Latin, my dull friend. It means I'm a doctor.

- Errol Flynn (as Peter Blood) in Captain Blood (1935)

Dr. Peter Blood: If your wit were as big as your voice, me dear, it's the great man you'd be by this.

- Errol Flynn (as Peter Blood) in Captain Blood (1935)

Harvey Greenfield: Dr. Winston asked me to make an appointment for a lady friend of mine.
Stephanie: How about a week from Tuesday at 7AM?
Harvey Greenfield: You're kidding? I'm asleep at 7AM.
Stephanie: Oh, I thought the appointment was for a lady?
Harvey Greenfield: That's right. We're both asleep at 7AM. I'm sorry, I hope I haven't shocked you?
Stephanie: No, but it must be a terrible shock for her.

- Ingrid Bergman (as Stephanie Dickinson) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Harry Payne Bosterly: You're drunk!
Harold Bissonette: And you're crazy. But I'll be sober tomorrow and you'll be crazy for the rest of your life.

- W.C. Fields (as Harold Bissonette) in It's a Gift (1934)

[choked up about Rhett and Scarlett]
Mammy: It makes my blood run cold, the things they say to one another.

- Hattie McDaniel (as Mammy) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

[after Baron Jeffreys instructs the jury to find Blood guilty of treason]
Dr. Peter Blood: What a creature must sit on the throne who lets a man like you deal out his justice.

- Errol Flynn (as Peter Blood) in Captain Blood (1935)

Bake Baker: As you said -- marriage would have ruined your career.
Sherry Martin: Well, I found out I was wrong.
Bake Baker: Maybe you were right. If you'd have married me, you wouldn't be working in a chop suey joint like this.
Sherry Martin: Well, I don't see any Admiral stripes on you!

- Ginger Rogers (as Sherry Martin) in Follow the Fleet (1936)

Policeman: Is this your car, sir ?
Jack Favell: Yes.
Policeman: Will you be going soon ? This isn't a parking place, you know.
Jack Favell: Oh, isn't it ? People are entitled... to leave their cars outside if they want to. It's a pity some of you fellows haven't anything better to do!

- George Sanders (as Jack Favell) in Rebecca (1940)

Devlin: [bitterly, to Alicia] Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character.

- Cary Grant (as Devlin) in Notorious (1946)