Affront Quotes

• An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself

  John Boehner

  Law, Constitution, Rule Of Law

  "‘Enough Is Enough!’ Boehner Blasts Obama on House Floor as GOP Votes to Block Amnesty". www.nationalreview.com. January 14, 2015 January 14, 2015.

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• 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

  Dark, Sunshine, Actors

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Eye, Heart

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1338, GENERAL PRESS

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• 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

  Skills, Hijab, Turbans

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• Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Change, Spiritual, Heart

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Would Be

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

  Jean Ingelow

  Pain, Heart, Years

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.92

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• Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.

  Alexander Haig

  Giving, Waiting, President

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• A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

  William Cowper

  Moral, Courtesy, Manners

  William Cowper, “Conversation”

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• It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Serious, Treats

  Thomas Paine (1826). “An examination of the passages in the New Testament quoted from the Old and called prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. To which is prefixed, An essay on dreams. Also an appendix”, p.46

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

  Rick Perry

  Country, Jobs, Administration

  "Defense Secretary Robert Gates' Exit Interview; Jon Stewart Talks Politics, Media Bias". www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2011.

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• For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

  Susan Sontag

  Death, Religious, Dying

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Heart, People

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• A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Art, Thinking, Trying

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• It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, Secret, May

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Humanism”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.

  Al Swearengen

  Bloodletting, Premises, Approved

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• A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Giving, Mind, Bears

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.10

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• That's why it's hard, I think, to rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. I love that line from the Bible, but it's so incredibly difficult sometimes, because when you've got reason to rejoice, you forget what it's like to mourn, even if you swear you never will. And because when you're mourning, the fact that someone close to you is rejoicing seems like a personal affront.

  Shauna Niequist

  Thinking, Mourning, Facts

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• The United States is guilty. We're not treating people fairly. We're not treating people with dignity. Building a wall is an affront and an insult, and we have no right.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Wall, People, United States

  "America Leads the World in Goodness". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Copernicus, Bears

  "A Writer's Notebook (1901)". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1946.

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• Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.

  Friedrich Engels

  Revenge, People, Use

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• Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

  Claude Debussy

  People, Strikes, Seems

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• 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

  Wise, Wisdom, Safe And Sound

  Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill: Esq; ...”, p.30

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• The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Moving, People, Wife

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• Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, wherea man is dishonoured by not resenting an affront, and utterly ruined by resenting it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Men, France

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