What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. — David Hume 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
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
I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. — Jean de la Bruyere 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
The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from… — George Mason 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
If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham 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
Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet. — Ann Coulter 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
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
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
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
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