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A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.
— Judith McNaught
Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Pashtuns are famously independent, primed to exchange their hoes for weapons at the first sign of an affront or invader.
— Douglas Wissing
Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Hoarding is both unnecessary and an affront to God, who is perfectly capable of providing abundantly for those who trust in him.
— Richard B. Hays
Idleness would have seemed not only a sign of moral decay, but an affront to the natural order of things.
— Diana Gabaldon
Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity.
— Allan Dare Pearce
Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.
— Stephen L. Richards
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will affront,
What man alive can stand the brunt? — Jonathan Swift
And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.
— George W. Bush
And it was not that he seemed to have forgotten or intentionally forgiven the affront, but simply that he did not regard it as an affront
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Bad smells made her angry, they were a personal affront.
— Louise Erdrich
But why insult the poor, affront the great?' A knave's a knave, to me, in every state. — Alexander Pope
A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.
— Michael Moore
Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.
— Jose Marti
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.
— Hendrik Hertzberg
He shrugged. "You got out of bed. The universe does seem to take that as a personal affront." The
— Seanan McGuire
Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.
— Claude Debussy
Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good.
— K.J. Wignall
Nonconformity is an affront to those in the mainstream.
— David Miller
I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.
— Javier Marias
I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.
— Lisa Kleypas
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
— Thomas Paine
Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.
— Mark Twain
Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.
— Anthony Bourdain
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
— Alexander Pushkin
Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.
— Al Swearengen
It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.
— Albert Einstein
Excepting Will," Mrs. Bulloch amended. "Such an affront to put upon ye, Thomas! Yon man'll not enjoy heaven if he gets there." "He'll
— D.E. Stevenson
An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities.
— Margo Kingston
A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
I will not allow anybody to interfere," said Mrs. Pocket. "I am surprised, Matthew, that you should expose me to the affront of interference.
— Charles Dickens
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
— Carlos Castaneda
It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
— Rand Paul
The disparities of income and wealth in the world today are an affront to any reflective person.
— John Kay
Edith was in the mood to think that any pleasure enjoyed away from her was a tacit affront, or at best a proof of indifference.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
— Richard Dawkins
Unbelieving image-bearers really do have a lot of good ideas. To deny this is an affront to the One Whose image they bear.
— Steve Corbett
Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?
— Blaise Pascal
But with time I came to understand that seeing a rubbery as a humiliation and an affront is an exmotional luxury.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
A responsible man remained unflappable in the face of personal loss. He would wave away an affront...
— Elliot West
An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself
— John Boehner
The ultimate affront, that neither hurries, grows weary nor forgets, is called death.
— Ahmadou Kourouma
