Epithet Quotations

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

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.

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

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 >>.

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