Affront Quotes
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Thirsty, weary, dissatisfied in this sultry life, come as you are; come at once; come because you are invited; as you would not do affront to infinite Generosity, come, and drink, and live forever.
— William Adams, p. 342. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
First, then, a woman will or won’t, depend on ’t;If she will do ’t, she will; and there ’s an end on ’t.But if she won’t, since safe and sound your trust is,Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.
aaron hill— Epilogue (1735). Note: The following lines are copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury:
- Where is the man who has the power and skillTo stem the torrent of a woman’s will?For if she will, she will, you may depend on ’t;And if she won’t, she won’t; so there ’s an end on ’t.The Examiner, (31 May 1829).
Be like the thistle,O my soul, Heedless o'praise and quick to take affront
Grieve— 1926 A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, l.1709-10.
A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
william cowper— Line 193.
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.
ian fleming— Ch. 5 (Casino Royale (1953))
Under a forehead roughly comparable to that of the Javanese or the Piltdown man are visible a pair of tiny pig eyes, lit up alternately by greed and concupiscence. His nose, broken in childhood by a self-inflicted blow with a hockey stick, has a prehensile tip, ever quick to smell out an insult; at the least suspicion of an affront, Perelman, who has the pride of a Spanish grandee, has been known to whip out his sword-cane and hide in the nearest closet.
s. j. perelman— The Best of S. J. Perelman, Introduction (1947)
— The Introduction was written under the name "Sidney Namlerep".
Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.
jonathan swift— Hints on Good Manners
A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
william cowper— William Cowper, Conversation (1782), line 193.
A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can.
— Cowper, Conversation (1782), line 193.
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. The suggestions of wounded pride, the instigations of irritated resentment, would be apt to carry the States against which the arms of the Union were exerted, to any extremes necessary to avenge the affront or to avoid the disgrace of submission. The first war of this kind would probably terminate in a dissolution of the Union.
Alexander Hamilton— No. 16 : The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union
Grave crimes of this nature, and the impunity that has accompanied them, entail violations of numerous international treaty provisions and constitute an assault on the rule of law, an affront to the international community and a threat to the international order.
alfred de zayas— UN experts urge Iraq to establish the whereabouts of the seven missing residents of Camp Ashraf [14]
An old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
jean ingelow— Jean Ingelow, Poems, Strife and Peace.
A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can.
william cowper— William Cowper, Conversation (1782), line 193.
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.
Aurora Levins Morales— Medicine Stories, 1998, Boston: South End Press.
