The infernal flag-waving after 911 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>.
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure. . . There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.
The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.
An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.
Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.
Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It`s a real thing. It`s not always referring to ancient history.
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.
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.
