Epithet Quotes

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

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 your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>.