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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...a vocal minority of scientists so mistrusts the models and the complex fragmentary data, that some claim that global warming is a… — Joanne Simpson 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
I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
