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 Copy Share Image
“Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, 'Be fruitful, and multiply'. But not in those words.” — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet.… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It's a real thing. It's not… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word ‘women' and not… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in… — Enver Hoxha 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
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
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
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
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
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
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