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

    Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”
  • An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

    Letters to His Son, 9 Oct. 1746
  • The sight of a sullen teenager is common no matter where you go. Teenagers want things so powerfully and can never seen to get them, and to add insult to injury, people make light of your feelings because you are a teenager. They say time will mend a broken heart and they're often right. But not where my feelings for Hardy were concerned.

    Teenager   Heart   Light  
    Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.56, St. Martin's Press
  • Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

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

  • Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

    "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.
  • For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.

  • In the last generation we've moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship. As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States. To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.

    Source: www.salon.com
  • I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

  • It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.

  • A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

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

    Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.87, OUP Oxford
  • The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.

    "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, www.imdb.com. January 14, 2007.
  • I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water—and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury.

    Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.287, Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

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