The greater the power, themore dangerous isthe abuse.

-Burke, Edmund
  Speech on the Middlesex Election, House of Commons, 7 Feb.

As to abuseöI thrive on it. Abuse, heartyabuse, is a tonic to all save men of indifferent health.

-Douglas, (George) Norman
  Some Limericks.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

-Gallagher, Noel
  In the NewYork Times,14  Jan.

: Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big Dö : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big Dö Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  CAPTALLCAPTALLCAPTALL1878  HMS Pinafore, act1.

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies,O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! Light the prime work of God to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have eas'd, Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, They creep, yet see, I dark in light expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, 586 Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

-Milton,John
Samson  Agonistes, l.67^79.

Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

-Palmerston, HenryJohnTemple, 3rd Viscount
  Letter to Henry Bulwer,1 Sep.

If there is anything to one's praise, it is a foolish vanity to be gratified at it; and, if it is abuseöwhy one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!

-Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  Sir Fretful Plagiary, of newspaper criticism.The Critic, act1, sc.1.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

-Stowe, Harriet (Elizabeth) ne¤  e Beecher
  UncleTom's Cabin, ch.20.

We have asked men for votes, they have given us advice. At present they are also giving us abuse.

-West, Dame Rebecca formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield
  'The SexWar: DisjointedThoughts on Men', in The Clarion, 18 Apr.