“ The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children. ”
- William Feather- Copy
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“ I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease. ”
- Paula Abdul- Copy
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“ EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of another or yourself. A lady with one of her ears applied To an open keyhole heard, inside, Two female gossips in converse free — The subject engaging them was she. "I think," said one, "and my husband thinks That she's a prying, inquisitive minx!" As soon as no more of it she could hear The lady, indignant, removed her ear… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away. ”
- Margaret Halsey- Copy
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“ Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return. ”
- Lewis H. Lapham- Copy
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“ The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy. ”
- Ann Coulter- Copy
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