Quotes by Epithet The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet. Ann Coulter epithet gourds flags Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee. Christopher Marlowe epithet divinity divine What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. David Hume epithet simple praise 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. Howard Thurman epithet men order I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>. Muhammad Ali viet-cong vietnamese epithet Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll epithet common-sense superstitions Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. Robert Green Ingersoll epithet argument logic The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me. Rosa Bonheur epithet bothered imbeciles An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. Samuel Johnson epithet metaphor art