Affront Quotes

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

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.

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.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country.

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.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

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