Insult Backfire/Quotes

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Drizz'l: Only a fool would engage an enemy without knowing anything about him.
Fighter: Which explains exactly why I did it!
Thief: That was supposed to be taunt, wasn't it?
Black Mage: One can only assume.

Vanessa: You're not normal, Dad.
Heinz: Oh, why thank you Vanessa, you're so sweet! See what I did there? Even though I knew you meant it as an insult, I took it as a compliment. Maddening, isn't it?

Huang: Disorganized? I'm not your ally, you know. Don't treat me as one of your own kind.
Mao: (almost hissing) What?
Hei: (deadpan) Don't worry about it. We don't regard you as one of us. Contractors like us don't possess emotions that would make us tremble in fear like you. Fortunately enough.

Sakura: Sensei, ... you do realize that you're not exactly... normal, right?
Recca: You know, the customary response to a complement where I come from is to thank the person giving it.
Sakura: What?
Recca: Thanks.
Sakura: That wasn't supposed to be a compliment.
Recca: And yet it was anyway. The term 'normal' simply means 'typical' - that is, like the majority of the population. In this case, it would mean 'like everyone else'. Since you've never been outside Konoha, you lack a frame of reference to compare me to people from other places, which makes it 'like everyone else in Konoha'... and, as you may have gathered, I don't exactly have a high opinion of the vast majority of the people here. Accordingly, the meaning of your statement was that I was not like a group of people who I despise. By most standards, that is a complement.

Lady Marian: Why, you speak treason!
Sir Robin: Fluently.

Taco Bell patron: What would you say if I called you a brutish fossil, symbolic of a decayed era gratefully forgotten?
John Spartan: I don't know... thanks?

Lockon: Let me ask you one question. What do you want to achieve with Exia?
Setsuna: I'll eradicate war.
Lockon: You won't be able if I shoot you.
Setsuna: I don't mind. You could do instead of me. Change this twisted world in my place. But while I'm alive I'll keep fighting. Not as Soran Ibrahim... but as Celestial Being's Gundam Meister, Setsuna F. Seiei.
Lockon: Piloting a Gundam?
Setsuna: That's right. I am Gundam.
Lockon: (lowers gun) That's so crazy, I don't want to shoot you anymore! You really are an impossible Gundam nut!
Setsuna: (smiles) Thank you. That's a great compliment.
(Lockon cracks up)

Jon: You have many flaws, Garfield.
Garfield: Thank you!
Jon: One of them is thinking insults are compliments.
Garfield: You're too kind!

They just call us savage
That's what I like to be
Let them call us savage
Cause that's what we like to be.
Savage!

Savage by Helloween