Top 9 Epithet Quotes - Quoted Daily

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Common Sense, Superstitions, Epithet

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1217, Library of Alexandria

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

Christopher Marlowe

Divinity, Divine, Epithet

'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) act 5, sc. 5

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

Rosa Bonheur

Imbeciles, Epithet, Bothered

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

Men, Order, Epithet

Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.143, Beacon Press

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Logic, Argument, Epithet

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1647, Library of Alexandria

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

David Hume

Simple, Praise, Epithet

David Hume (2010). “Moral and Political Philosophy”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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

Samuel Johnson

Art, Metaphor, Epithet

Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.141