Quotes with affront

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  • William Cowper A moral, sensible, and wellbred man, I will not affront me, and no other can.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Richard Dawkins Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Aaron Hill 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.
    Zara (1735)
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Susan Sontag 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
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alexander Haig 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
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Bryan Fuller If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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