Insult/formal

Famous quotes containing the words insult and/or formal:

“Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 14:31.

“It is in the nature of allegory, as opposed to symbolism, to beg the question of absolute reality. The allegorist avails himself of a formal correspondence between “ideas” and “things,” both of which he assumes as given; he need not inquire whether either sphere is “real” or whether, in the final analysis, reality consists in their interaction.”
—Charles, Jr. Feidelson, U.S. educator, critic. Symbolism and American Literature, ch. 1, University of Chicago Press (1953)