Epithet Quotes
Epithet Quote of the day
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.
Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It's a real thing. It's not always referring to ancient history.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.
I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .
An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.
I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>.
Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.
The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.
If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.
I never could believe that Providencehad sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, andmillions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.
So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —”“Don’t talk to your mother like that.
