Epithet Quotations

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

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

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.

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

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

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.