Top 100 Quotes About Affront
#1. Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
Pablo Picasso
#2. It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.
Benjamin Franklin
#3. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
Richard Dawkins
#4. The idea that I hear from the right wing in the last few decades, is that any sort of sacrifice is an affront to my liberty as an American to be a pig the way I want to.
Bill Maher
#5. Hoarding is both unnecessary and an affront to God, who is perfectly capable of providing abundantly for those who trust in him.
Richard B. Hays
#6. I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.
Megyn Kelly
#7. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
Rand Paul
#8. 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
#9. But with time I came to understand that seeing a rubbery as a humiliation and an affront is an exmotional luxury.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#10. I will not allow anybody to interfere," said Mrs. Pocket. "I am surprised, Matthew, that you should expose me to the affront of interference.
Charles Dickens
#11. We sit in silence, drinking hot chocolate and contemplating the act that death is a monstrous affront to the living and shouldn't be allowed.
Anna Maxted
#12. It is a great affront to God to jest with sacred things, particularly to make sport with the word and ordinances of God, or to treat them with lightness,
Matthew Henry
#13. A habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night ... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.
Toni Morrison
#14. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.
Anthony Bourdain
#15. 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
#16. I jerk around and see Sister Dora, a portly woman who's the head cook in the kitchen, staring daggers at me. This is nothing new. She stares daggers at everyone who walks through the lunch line holding a tray, as though our needing sustenance is a personal affront.
Pittacus Lore
#17. For eventually one gets over reality's affront to one's innocence. One grows accustomed to the melancholy fact that we all sell ourselves at one time or another, that whoring is the dirty little secret of our success as human beings.
Paul Russell
#18. And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
Jean Ingelow
#19. 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
#20. Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.
Todd Akin
#21. And it was not that he seemed to have forgotten or intentionally forgiven the affront, but simply that he did not regard it as an affront
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar's transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do with each other.
Ted Cruz
#23. Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good.
K.J. Wignall
#24. Pashtuns are famously independent, primed to exchange their hoes for weapons at the first sign of an affront or invader.
Douglas Wissing
#25. It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
Thomas Paine
#26. The disparities of income and wealth in the world today are an affront to any reflective person.
John Kay
#27. The workman made it, therefore it is not God. To represent an infinite Spirit by an image, and the great Creator by the image of a creature, is the greatest affront we can put upon God and the greatest cheat we can put upon ourselves. As
Matthew Henry
#28. Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere ...
I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture.
George W. Bush
#30. Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will affront,
What man alive can stand the brunt?
Jonathan Swift
#31. Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
Edward Abbey
#32. Appeal. Guy's like you get all excited about the appeal. Don't you see that I view the very existence of an appeal as a disastrous failure? No much worse, a personal affront of the highest order for which I blame you.
Sergio De La Pava
#33. And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.
George W. Bush
#34. High taxation was not regarded in these years as an affront. On the contrary, steep rates of progressive income tax were seen as a consensual device to take excess resources away from the privileged
Tony Judt
#36. 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 Marias
#37. A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.
Judith McNaught
#38. Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw so as to not affront the Lord.
Jen Lancaster
#39. The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we are. We long to be understood for what we might have been had all been for the best in the best of all possible worlds and, at the same time, to be forgiven for what we are.
Jo Coudert
#40. Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#41. Because the other way wasn't working. The waking up just to get the day over with until it was time for bed. The grinding it out was a disgrace, an affront to the honor and long shot of being alive at all.
Maria Semple
#42. He shrugged. "You got out of bed. The universe does seem to take that as a personal affront." The
Seanan McGuire
#43. Jesus, she called her cat "Mr. Purrsie Purrs." Colt didn't know much about cats but he knew hers wasn't a stupid one and if the damn thing understood English and recognized this affront to his dignity he'd scratch her eyes out.
Kristen Ashley
#44. Have a courage to repulse those people who dare to affront you because everyone has an Achilles' heel. Outshine them, and let your light shine on their damned faces, INTENSELY.
Maverick
#45. An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself
John Boehner
#46. 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
#47. The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.
Hendrik Hertzberg
#48. Thousands of years of civilization had made of suicide a taboo, an affront to all religious codes: Man struggles to survive, not to succumb. The human race must procreate.
Paulo Coelho
#49. A responsible man remained unflappable in the face of personal loss. He would wave away an affront...
Elliot West
#50. He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.
Ian McEwan
#51. Why did you laugh right before you lost consciousness."
"Death's an adventure. I lived big. Rigor mortis makes your face stick. So, who knew how to thaw me?"
"Death's an insult."
"At least an affront," I agree.
Karen Marie Moning
#52. 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
#53. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. As long as you have a beating heart, it's never too late. But you do need to get on with it [. . .] every second you squander is an affront to an unforgiving universe.
Andrea Waltz
#55. Bad smells made her angry, they were a personal affront.
Louise Erdrich
#56. Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?
Blaise Pascal
#57. Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.
Gregory Maguire
#58. 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
#59. [...] it would have been an affront to all good souls who had worked for a better world over the millennia not to engineer a system for preserving finer thoughts after the millennium arrived and all ideologies died and people became animals once more.
Douglas Coupland
#60. Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or country ... [It] is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights.
Hillary Clinton
#61. He was a dork, a dink, a dong ... Why should the male member be used as a term of abuse? No man hated his own dorkdinkdong, quite the opposite. But maybe it was an affront that any other man had one. That must be the truth.
Margaret Atwood
#62. Unbelieving image-bearers really do have a lot of good ideas. To deny this is an affront to the One Whose image they bear.
Steve Corbett
#63. An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities.
Margo Kingston
#64. But why insult the poor, affront the great?'
A knave's a knave, to me, in every state.
Alexander Pope
#65. And the same man who spends so many days and nights in fury and despair at losing some office or at some imaginary affront to his honour is the very one who knows that he is going to lose everything through death and feels neither anxiety nor emotion.
Blaise Pascal
#66. Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave,
And only cowards dare affront a woman.
George Farquhar
#67. The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste.
Peter McWilliams
#69. A reaper in a bubble bath? What an affront to the dignity of death.
Moira Rogers
#70. A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
William Cowper
#71. The ultimate affront, that neither hurries, grows weary nor forgets, is called death.
Ahmadou Kourouma
#72. Hundreds had come to the castle gates to bear witness to the burning of the Seven. The smell in the air was ugly. Even for soldiers, it was hard not to feel uneasy at such an affront to the gods most had worshiped all their lives.
George R R Martin
#73. Nujood's rebellion, honorable in our eyes, is moreover considered by conservatives as an outrageous affront, punishable, according to extremist, by a murderous "honor crime.".
Nujood Ali
#74. Idleness would have seemed not only a sign of moral decay, but an affront to the natural order of things.
Diana Gabaldon
#75. I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.
Lisa Kleypas
#76. The issues we hear Donald Trump talking about are just so contrary to who we are as a people. They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves.
Cory Booker
#77. A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.
Michael Moore
#78. If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life.
Bryan Fuller
#80. 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
#81. The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country.
Rick Perry
#82. House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.
Mary Doria Russell
#83. This is the second time she has turned me down, and with an apparent attempt to affront me. How does she manage to disappoint and intrigue simultaneously?
Noe
#84. Volyova did not like planets at the best of times, and gas giants struck her as an unreasonable affront to human scale and frailty. In that respect, they were almost as bad as stars.
Alastair Reynolds
#85. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.
A.W. Tozer
#86. She sounded angry. That was the way she'd been as long as he'd known her. If she became ill, it irritated her. She was annoyed by sickness. She seemed to regard it as a personal affront.
Richard Matheson
#87. If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy low/sell high". Maybe you'll teach them, not by what you say but by who you are, to live their lives as a standing affront to the ravaging mercantile mentality.
Mary Rose O'Reilley
#88. 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
#89. It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.
Albert Einstein
#91. Excepting Will," Mrs. Bulloch amended. "Such an affront to put upon ye, Thomas! Yon man'll not enjoy heaven if he gets there." "He'll
D.E. Stevenson
#92. Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.
Claude Debussy
#93. Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God.
Max Anders
#94. Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#95. Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.
Mark Twain
#96. Nonconformity is an affront to those in the mainstream.
David Miller
#97. 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
#98. Edith was in the mood to think that any pleasure enjoyed away from her was a tacit affront, or at best a proof of indifference.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#99. Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you
Giles Fraser
#100. 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
