Epithets Quotes
The world enslaves our sex by the mere fear of an epithet; and as long as it can throw any vile term at us, before which we cower, it can maintain our enslavement.
de La Bruyère , Jean
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Ingersoll, Robert G.
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
Ingersoll, Robert G.
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
Johnson, Samuel
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Lewis, Wyndham
As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet.
Mill, John Stuart
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 being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
Mussolini, Benito
This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: "Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
Shelley, Mary
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.