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

Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man. — Edward Gibbon

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a <>. — Muhammad Ali

Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee. — Christopher Marlowe

The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet. — Ann Coulter

He spits out an epithet so nasty I think it's only legal in England. And then only when your favourite football club loses. — Tera Lynn Childs

Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like ducking glass mole. — Cassandra Clare

The epithet "monolithic" is often used as a term of praise in this country; but a monolith is a mass of stone. Human beings are far more complex. — Ilya Ehrenburg

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. — Paul Gauguin

It's a time-honored truism of diplomacy that the most resented epithet is the one most accurately depicting the deficiencies of the recipient. — Keith Laumer

Sweet weeping baby Jesus he has a six-pack to beat all six-packs! — P.C. Cast

As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet. — Wyndham Lewis

Lucifer's bouncing balls, Kitten, not again! — Jeaniene Frost

What in the name of Voldy's pasty-white rear end was that? — G. Norman Lippert

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

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"Don't talk to your mother like that. — J.K. Rowling

Barking spiders! — Scott Westerfeld

Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks! — Patricia C. Wrede

Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, 'Be fruitful, and multiply'. But not in those words. — Woody Allen

I'd rather kiss a wookie! — Donald F. Glut

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells. — Jim Butcher

ohmygod. did all hell just freeze over? — P.C. Cast