{"id":1420394,"date":"2021-12-02T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1420394"},"modified":"2021-11-30T15:40:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:40:48","slug":"7-of-the-most-brilliant-burns-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/7-of-the-most-brilliant-burns-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"7 of the Most Brilliant Burns in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/81819brilliantinsultsMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve lived 20-odd years on this earth, and I have yet to deliver a clever but vicious insult to someone who fully deserves it. I&#8217;ve never uttered the words \u201cI could agree with you, but then we&#8217;d both be wrong,\u201d nor have I had the opportunity to drop just a really well-timed \u201cYOUR MOM\u201d into the conversation. (This is, as we all know, the most dismissive invective one human being can say to another.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t care who you are or where you&#8217;ve been\u2014nothing beats the pure, primal urge to roast someone within an inch of their life, preferably in front of a crowd of cheering onlookers. The problem is that most of us aren&#8217;t quite that articulate, so it&#8217;s probably best to leave this sort of thing to the professionals\u2014which is to say fictional characters. Here are 7 literary insults so brutal you&#8217;ll have to take a moment to yourself and whisper, <em>\u201cDamn.<\/em>\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve lived 20-odd years on this earth, and I have yet to deliver a clever but vicious insult to someone who fully deserves it. I&#8217;ve never uttered the words \u201cI could agree with you, but   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[628,25172,24397,25017,8058,25173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420394"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444940,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420394\/revisions\/1444940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}