Epithet Quotes

32 quotes by 29 authors

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the… — Jane Austen
Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used… — Gail Carson Levine
The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way… — Criss Jami
There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We mistake kindness for… — Jennifer James
The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me. — Rosa Bonheur
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave… — George Bernard Shaw
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport… — George Steiner
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. — Paul Gauguin
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. — Mary Wollstonecraft
I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word â€˜women' and not replaced it with… — Patricia Briggs
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both… — Mary Wollstonecraft

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