Quotes About Castigate

If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.

It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

David Manning White] maintains that critics romanticize the past in order to castigate the present.

As long as our loneliness brings us together with the hope that together we no longer will be alone, we castigate each other with our unfulfilled and unrealistic desires for oneness, inner tranquility and the uninterrupted experience of communion.

The trouble with this kind of Hegelian prose is that the reader is at first amused by what seem to be harmless metaphors, and soon the metaphors are being used as if they were observable historical tendencies and aesthetic phenomenon, and next the metaphor becomes a stick to castigate those who have other tastes, and other metaphors.