Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Trudeau has to defend Canadian interests and values. But he has to do it in a way that doesn't say that Trump… — Michael Kergin Copy Share Image
It's easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that's really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Other presidents behind the scenes mutter epithets about the media. Donald Trump calls us the lowest form of human life to our… — Ruth Marcus Copy Share Image
The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the… — Chris Sanders Copy Share Image
The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
An officer should never speak ironically or sarcastically to an enlisted man, since the latter does not have a fair chance to… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall Copy Share Image
The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, when the term "fascist" gets used, it's either talking about other countries, ancient history or it's used… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
