Epithet Quotes

“Lucifer's bouncing balls, Kitten, not again!”
― Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave

“So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —”
“Don’t talk to your mother like that.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole.”
― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones

“Oh, bleep.”
― Kiersten White, Paranormalcy

“Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, 'Be fruitful, and multiply'. But not in those words.”
― Woody Allen

“Barking spiders!”
― Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan

“Fuck a zombie!”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead in the Family

“Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“Merlin's pants!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!”
― Hergé

“Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Magician's Ward

“ohmygod. did all hell just freeze over?”
― P.C. Cast

“ohmygoodNESS!”
― P.C. Cast

“I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .”
― John Stuart Mill, An examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy, and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings

“Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.”
― Mercedes Lackey, The Silver Gryphon

“Sweet weeping baby Jesus he has a six-pack to beat all six-packs!”
― P.C. Cast, Warrior Rising

“What in the name of Voldy’s pasty-white rear end was that?”
― G. Norman Lippert, James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing

“I'd rather kiss a wookie!”
― Donald F. Glut, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

“I never could believe that Providence
had sent a few men into the world,
ready booted and spurred to ride, and
millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.”
― Richard Rumbold

“…the epithet rosy-finger'd, which Homer hath given to the morning. … Aristotle hath observed the effect solely in respect of beauty, but the remark holds equally true of these epithets in respect of vivacity. … It at once gratifies two of the senses, the nose by its fragrance, and the eye by its beauty.”
― George Campbell, The Philosophy of Rhetoric

“... the young should want to put things right in the world. If not them, then who?”
― Colonel Lopez, The Colombian Exchange