Quotes of: Affront Keyword

Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading--in things like recipes and "reading material." The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming. You must do the one befo...

The Leaning Tower Of Babel And Other Affronts By The Underground Grammarian

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Thomas Paine

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.

Michael Moore

A reaper in a bubble bath? What an affront to the dignity of death.

Frostbite

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Joseph Addison

Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity.

Paris in April

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

Richard Dawkins

Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country.

Rush Limbaugh

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.

Jean Ingelow

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

George Bernard Shaw

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

Jon Corzine

Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good.

Blood

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

Oliver Goldsmith

It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country.

Rick Perry

The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.

English Traits

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

Something Wonderful

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Samuel Richardson

The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

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 Marías