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“You Are A Sad, Strange Little Man”: 46 Movie Insults So Brutal People Still Quote Them Years Later
If someone asked you about your favorite movie quote of all time, you would likely be able to recite it word for word. It could be a legendary speech, a catchy line of dialogue, or an insult that zinged so well, it became a cult classic on its own.
Here are some examples, as shared by people in a Reddit thread from a few years back. You will see some of the classics from films like Billy Madison, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and even Toy Story, to name a few.
Scroll through and see if your favorite movie insult made the list.
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#1
"I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." - French soldier, Monty Python, and the Holy Grail
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#2
"You despise me, don't you?" / "Well, if I gave you any thought, I probably would."
NightOwlPanda 1 day ago
It goes on from there: Ugarte: Rick, think of all the poor devils who can't meet Renault's price. I get it for them for half. Is that so... parasitic? Rick: I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one.
#3
"I'll explain, and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog-faced buffoon."
#4
“… all that I can forgive. But really Debbie, pastels?…”
UKGrandad 1 day ago
The 1991 movie had a great one. Wednesday had been sent to summer camp and had been paired with Amanda, an annoying goody-two-shoes, for lifesaving practice in the lake. The instructor tells them that one has to be the victim, the other the lifesaver. Amanda: "I'll be the victim." Wednesday: "All your life."
#5
"You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity."
#6
"To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I've known sheep that could outwit you. I've worn dresses with higher IQs." - Wanda, A Fish Called
#7
“By the way, there's a name for you ladies, but it isn’t used in high society... outside of a kennel.”
Stephanie Did It 1 day ago
One of my absolute favorites that is cinematic comfort food for me!
#8
"Hey, O'Connell! Looks to me like I've got all the horses! / "Hey, Beni! Looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the river!"
LakotaWolf (she/her) 18 hours ago
Every once in a while, for no real reason, my now-ex and I would say "Hey, Beni! Looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the riiii-ver!" in the exact tone and cadence that Brendan Fraser uses in the movie XD always got us giggling. I love this movie.
#9
I heard a good one just this week in Lady for a Day (1933)
>Butler: If I had choice of weapons with you, Sir, I'd choose grammar!
#10
"It's not my job to make you feel like a man. I can't make you something you're not."
#11
"What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic thing I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. May God have mercy on your soul." - Principal Max Anderson, Billy Madison
#12
"Why, you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder." - Leia, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
#13
"The day I need a friend like you, I’ll just have myself a little squat and poop one out." - Mrs. Carmody, The Mist
#14
"Look, I think we got off on the wrong foot here." / "That's all you've got lady: two wrong feet in ugly shoes."
#15
"Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?" - John Bender, The Breakfast Club
#16
From The Ref:
"You know what, Mom? You know what I'm going to get you next Christmas? A big, wooden cross. So anytime you feel unappreciated for all your sacrifices, you can climb on up and nail yourself to it.".
UnclePanda 1 day ago
"Why don't you climb down off that cross, use the wood to build a bridge, and get over it." ~ Christopher Titus
#17
"Look up 'idiot' in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?" / "A picture of me?" / "No, the definition of the word 'idiot,' which you freaking are!"
#18
Scarlett: "Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?"
Rhett Butler: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
Gone with the Wind
Bored Jellyfish 1 day ago
That’s not an insult. THIS is an insult: Rhett (to Scarlett): “You still think you’re the cutest trick in shoe leather.”
#19
Tommy Boy
Tommy:
Did you hear I graduated?
Richard Hayden:
Yeah, and just a shade under a decade, too, all right.
Tommy:
You know a lot of people go to college for seven years.
Richard Hayden:
I know, they're called doctors.
#20
Take this quarter. Go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face.
#21
When shrek shows up at lord farquaad and Fiona’s wedding and lord farquaad says “Now really, it’s rude enough being alive when no one wants you, but showing up uninvited to a wedding?”.
Bored Jellyfish 1 day ago
Lord Farquaad: “What’s that? It’s hideous! Shrek: “Well, that’s not very nice…” [Gestures to Donkey] “It’s just a donkey.”
#22
You have a face for radio and a voice for print.
#23
"You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you’re not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? - Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs
Beak Hookage 1 day ago
He also puts on a mocking imitation of a West Virginia accent while insulting her, just to rub it in. Most notably when he says "you think you can dissect me with this blunt little tool?"
#24
"If staying here means working within 10 yards of you, frankly, I'd rather have a job wiping Saddam Hussein's arse." - Bridget, Bridget Jones's Diary
B Parke 1 day ago
Nothing you say Raymond (or whatever name you decide to use when you make a new account) makes any sense. I don't understand your hyper fixation on Nate. I can only surmise you have suppressed homosexual urges and an attraction to him since he's constantly on your mind. He's the only thing you ever talk about. You're always obsessively bringing up how much you both agree on the same things (except trans issues) like you're trying to say that you both have so much in common. Ask him out already.
#25
“Maybe poker is just not your game, Ike. I know, let’s have a spelling contest!” - Tombstone.
#26
"You dense, irritating, miniature beast of a burden." - Shrek, Shrek
#27
"Oh Benson. Dear Benson. You are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence.".
#28
“How’s your wife, and my kids?”
- Major League.
John O'Donnell 1 day ago
That was stolen from Rodney Marsh, he said it to Ian Botham at a test match. Botham’s reply? “Wife’s fine, kids are r******d.” It was the 1980s.
#29
"It's against the law to burn anything besides trash in your own yard, ma'am." / "It is trash."
#30
"Liam and me, we’re going to mess you up." / "Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man."
#31
"And go where, Sharon?!" / "To Hell. But, until then, I suggest maybe the Four Seasons."
#32
"You're so ugly, you could be a modern art masterpiece!" - Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, Full Metal Jacket
#33
(Who the hell are you?)
"I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.".
#34
“That’s about as funny as a screen door on a battleship.”
— The immortal Biff Tannen.
#35
You human paraquat!
- Big Lebowski.
#36
In terms of being passive-aggressively devastating, I’d give it to “I’ll expect less of you from now on” from *Martha Marcy May Marlene*.
#38
Not really an insult but I just love when the warden in Shawshank Redemption says,
"Well did he just up and vanish like a fart in the wind?!"
I love this phrase so much haha.
Michael P. 1 day ago
And a few moments later, the poster in Andy's cell reveals it all. One of the most iconic scene in cinema.
#39
"You are literally too stupid to insult." - Stu, The Hangover
#40
"There is no way, NO way that you could have come from my loins...The first thing I'm gonna do when I get home is punch yo mamma in da mouth!" - Buford T. Justice to his own son. Smokey and the Bandit.
#41
"Hey, where'd you get those clothes, the toilet store?" - Brick Tamland, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
#42
"You dirt-eating piece of slime. You scum-sucking pig. You son of a motherless goat." - Lucky Day, Three Amigos
#44
"You're a DIESEL"
Use it way too much since watching Bullet Train. The judgement and disdain in the delivery is perfect.
#45
"You're Sicilian huh...?"
Dennis Hopper - True Romance.
#46
>Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
What do you think ?
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 day ago
Just in case you are wondering, "Raymond" is the long time troll and my stalker Captain Wafflestomper. As you can see he likes to project his own insecurities onto me.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 day ago
Just in case you are wondering, "Raymond" is the long time troll and my stalker Captain Wafflestomper. As you can see he likes to project his own insecurities onto me.
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