Insult/formal

Famous quotes containing the words insult and/or formal:

    A doll in the doll-maker’s house
    Looks at the cradle and bawls:
    “That is an insult to us.”
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, “Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?”
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)