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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
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
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
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