Quotes About Affront

I will not allow anybody to interfere," said Mrs. Pocket. "I am surprised, Matthew, that you should expose me to the affront of interference.

We children were especially indignant at this affront," so her sister "snatched the Grant book away to hurl it into the woodshed as ignominious trash.

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

Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in her manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.

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

Ultimately, these acts of abuse and aggression offer evidence of a new reality emerging in the United States that enshrines a politics of disposability, in which growing numbers of people are considered to be a dispensable drain on the economy and thus an affront to the sensibilities of the rich and powerful.

Word of all this had reached Diana, an unusually passionate, impulsive woman; she had written to him in unusually passionate, impulsive terms and his letter was designed to do away with her resentment of what she saw not as immoral conduct (she had no particular objection to immoral conduct) but as an intolerable public affront.

The fighting man has a grim sense of justice, which it is dangerous to affront.

Elle n'avait aucune envie de communiquer ses coordonnées (les siennes) à messire Arnaud Strauss, ce dernier n'ayant cessé depuis notre rupture (à elle et moi) de la poursuivre (elle) de ses assiduités (à lui) et de ses roses blanches (celles du fleuriste), allant jusqu'à faire des allusions scabreuses à ses formes voluptueuses (celles d'Agnès) devant moi (Frédéric Léger). L'affront, quoi.

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

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

If it is your fault that your mother is miserable, it becomes a potentially fixable affront. Taking blame means that at least the hope of love is still there-all you have to do is deserve it.

Idleness would have seemed not only a sign of moral decay, but an affront to the natural order of things.

She wins all arguments by the use of vehemence and the conviction that a difference of opinion is a personal affront.

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

From the vantage point of the present, the prize promised by the idea of progress can look less like an achievement than an affront.

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.