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In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are…

— Paul Gauguin

Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.

— Christopher Marlowe

Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought…

— James Russell Lowell

In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put…

— Garry Kasparov

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…

— Rachel Maddow

What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.

— David Hume

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.

— Anonymous

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

— Charles Lamb

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

— Anonymous

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the…

— Criss Jami

“Fuck a zombie!”

— Charlaine Harris

The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the decades, and…

— Chris Sanders

“Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, 'Be fruitful, and multiply'. But not in those words.”

— Woody Allen

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft