Epithet Quotes

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As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet. — Wyndham Lewis
I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a… — John Stuart Mill
If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better… — Robert Green Ingersoll
They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is… — Gertrude Bacon
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. — Robert Green Ingersoll
If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose… — Howard Thurman
Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants… — Larry Gates
The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the decades, and it's… — Chris Sanders
The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on… — Enver Hoxha
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only… — Oscar Romero
Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly… — Carolyn Heilbrun
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader,… — Alberto Manguel
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus. — W. W. Rouse Ball
The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from your side of… — George Mason
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 dog, ragged head,… — Charles Lamb
Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee. — Christopher Marlowe
Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are… — Arianna Huffington
The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how… — George Carlin
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. — Jean de la Bruyere
Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on… — Lewis Carroll

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