Top 100 A Purse Quotes
#1. It seemed a bit euphemistic to call a murder an incident, almost as if it were in the same category as a purse snatching.
Joyce Tremel
#2. Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.
William Shakespeare
#3. A brown trout sips one off the surface. Beneath the trout, mica-flecked sand gleams white. Come fall the female's caudal fin will nudge the grains to make a nest, the eggs spilling like pearls into a purse.
Ron Rash
#4. I'd love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I'd like to have an everything line!
Bethany Cosentino
#5. I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
Rachel G. Fox
#6. Watch the dog! His hands actually hesitated, and I think he realized for the first time that PC was there. The dog's presence seemed to stump him. What, he's never seen a dog in a purse before? That or he thought PC was some sort of hairless rat - that happened.
Kalayna Price
#7. No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt
#9. It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich Schiller
#11. When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth ...
Gertrude Stein
#12. Honestly, if a girl's wearing, like, a Gucci shirt with a Gucci belt and a purse and a visor, that's not cute at all. You can't get away with that - with me - but you can always sprinkle it in there with your own stuff, and it's all good.
Kreayshawn
#13. Bring me his head when they're finished. But before you give him to the sodomites, cut his cock off and bring me his sack for a purse. I want him to bleed to death as they fuck him.
Brent Weeks
#14. Women should never carry purses in the Metro or on the street in Paris. Unless the bag is purely for show, that is. Money, credit cards and ID should never be put in a purse.
James Laxer
#15. For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it.
Herman Melville
#16. No. I'm quite certain I'm human. Most days anyway. Mornings not always withstanding. Instead of a purse, I'm much more of a bear in the early hours of the day.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#17. Every job has parts of it that are a giant pain in the ass - whether you carry a penis or a purse.
Denis Leary
#18. I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.
Venus Williams
#19. A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. Keep your distance, men. Don't be fooled into believing that our enemies are helpless. These 'girls', as they call themselves are a crafty bunch. I've see inside the thing they call a 'purse'. It is filled with all kinds of toxic sprays and pointy things they wouldn't hesitate unleashed on us
Michael Buckley
#22. The state might say that it had taken a year to write the book, and the author might say it had taken thirty. Goethe said that every bon mot of his had cost a purse of gold. What
Upton Sinclair
#23. How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social
I mean a purse?
Thomas Carlyle
#24. Your penis will not shrivel up and die if you admit you want an umbrella instead of standing in the rain acting like a little water never hurt anyone. It's an unbrella, not a purse.
Jenny O'Connell
#25. It's not a purse, Rose," Connor chimes in, his lips rising. "It's your future." His amusement is palpable.
Krista Ritchie
#26. It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
Alan Garner
#27. Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.
Benjamin Franklin
#28. You should see the murderous stares I get on the street. Though I think that has less to do with seeing a man carrying a purse and more to do with paisley. Paisley makes everyone cranky.
Lisa Henry
#29. My new iPhone, I'm obsessed. My iPod. I love all the Mac crap. AppleTV, I'm crazy about that. I'd rather buy a new gadget than, like, a purse.
Kaley Cuoco
#30. Rich women live at such a distance from life that very often they never see their money - the Queen, they say, for instance, never carries a purse.
Elizabeth Bowen
#31. This, Sebastian is no mere purse. And, you shouldn't call a handbag a purse ... a bag, on the other hand, is meant to be seen.
Candace Bushnell
#32. There is a safety mechanism in place [to ensure the perambulator doesn't turn back into a purse with a baby in it] : if anything weighing more than a pound and a half-about the weight of a three-volume novel-is in the carriage of the perambulator, it will not transform.
Lev A.C. Rosen
#33. It has been suggested that hanging out with a dust bunny who carries a purse might have a negative impact on my image as a hard-core crime fighter."
"Don't be ridiculous. It's a very nice clutch.
Jayne Castle
#34. Also, why did Mary Poppins even need such a huge bag if it's magically designed to fit everything? Seriously. I'm guessing that Mary asked for a magic pocket and the wizards were like, "What, like a dude? Nah. I don't think so, lady. You'll get a purse." Those guys were motherfuckers.
Jenny Lawson
#35. Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
St. Jerome
#36. If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with ... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.
Dennis Weaver
#37. I love that you don't carry a purse," I say.
"I love that you don't carry one, either," she says with a laugh.
Colleen Hoover
#38. When the time came for the porter to depart, Sindbad gave him a purse containing one hundred sequins, saying, Take this, Hindbad, and go home, but to-morrow come again and you shall hear more of my adventures.
Anonymous
#39. I am not the only parent in the history of the planet to have their asses handed to them by something they could fit in a purse.
Dawn Dais
#40. You're smart, pretty, and you aren't a douche purse.
Gena Showalter
#41. Shaunee was digging in her purse like she'd misplaced a tube of one of MAC's seasonal lipsticks that you buy and fall in love with AND THEN THEY DISCONTINUE IT BECAUSE THEY REALLY HATE US AND WANT US TO BE CRAZY.
P.C. Cast
#42. That secret entrance deep between her thighs clenched like the mouth of a drawstring purse.
Susan Andersen
#43. He said 'That! Put that in your purse! I don't like that!' when I took off my brassiere. It remained there, though, curled up on his wooden floor, curled awkwardly for a piece of clothing, not awkwardly if it had been something else perhaps, a creature.
"Idea
Diane Williams
#44. Good God." he said incredulously. "You've got a black belt in purse attack, that's for damn sure.
Linda Howard
#45. Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.
William Cowper
#46. Did you know that if Barbie was a real woman with those proportions, she'd have to carry her kidneys in her purse?
Lani Diane Rich
#47. I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!
Hoda Kotb
#48. The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.
David Gerrold
#49. I grabbed my purse, which was conveniently place by the front door. Gabriel was such a considerate abductor/host. He even left the front door unpadlocked.
Molly Harper
#50. Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.
Mary Baker Eddy
#51. King gives you this 'bro' stuff and tells you that the white man did this and we should stick together. Then he starts cutting your purse. I was with him for six years. You put your head in a noose when you sign with Don King.
Randall "Tex" Cobb
#52. Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife,
In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains
A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain
New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale
John Phillips
#53. My purse, like all purses, seems to have a traveling black hole in it.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#54. Better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.
David Crockett
#55. That's a lovely piece," Kat said, pointing at a Louise XV armoire near the fireplace.
The man raised his eyebrows. "Did you come to steal it?"
"Darn it," Kat said with a snap of her fingers."I knew I should have brought my big purse.
Ally Carter
#56. Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
Pliny The Elder
#58. A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
John Stuart Mill
#59. It's age. It makes misers of us," he said dolefully. "Counting out our lives in small change from a thinning purse.
Peter Maughan
#60. One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
J.B. Morton
#61. My sister and I didn't know what that meant either but we were not equal to two questions in a row. And I knew that wasn't what rape meant anyway; it meant something dirty. "Purse. Purse stolen," said my mother in a festive but cautioning tone. Talk in our house was genteel.
Alice Munro
#62. If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When the script's as good as those on 'Game of Thrones,' say, I don't think there was a single occasion where any of us thought there was a bad scene.
Charles Dance
#63. If now a friend denies not what was given him in trust,
If he restores an ancient purse with all its coins and rust,
This prodigy of honesty deserves to be enrolled
In Tuscan books, and with a sacrificial lamb extolled.
Juvenal
#64. The two Crabfest eaters pulled out bills one at a time. Then they each opened their change purse as though it were a rusted chastity belt. Heidi
Harlan Coben
#65. Hack, hack, hack. I wouldn't pay twenty-five cents to spit on a Georgia O'Keeffe painting. And I think she's a horrible person, too. I know her ... So arrogant, so sure of herself. I'm sure she's carrying a dildo in her purse.
Truman Capote
#66. Once she got a grip on it, it was a death grip, and I would sooner go into her purse looking for Tic Tacs than try to get it away from her.
Shay Savage
#67. PROTEUS: Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.
SPEED: And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.
William Shakespeare
#69. When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.
Margaret Turnbull
#70. If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.
Jim Rohn
#71. Nervy little Shades' Hill purse-clutcher, thinking you can keep me in the dark. What plan?"
"The plan to steal a corpse."
"Ahem. Anything else you'd like to tell me about it?"
"It's brilliant.
Scott Lynch
#72. Never without a shilling in my purse.
Horace
#73. He drank some more wine, feeling he was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For a man should never go through a woman's handbag-even the most remote tribe would adhere to that ancestral rule.
Antoine Laurain
#74. Grandma pulled a .44 magnum out of her purse. Everybody duck, and I'll shoot out his tires.
Janet Evanovich
#75. Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.
Dave Hickey
#76. I'm never without Nerds and peanut M&M's. I have a sweet tooth! I have an unlimited supply on hand at home, but the candy packs in my purse are not for sharing.
Joanna Garcia
#77. When all thoughts
Are exhausted
I slip into the woods
And gather
A pile of shepherd's purse.
Like the little stream
Making its way
Through the mossy crevices
I, too, quietly
Turn clear and transparent.
Ryokan
#78. What love is not torment when a man knows not how to love himself? Talk not of drowning, but attaining your heart's desire by action: Put money in thy purse.
Christopher Moore
#79. Take care of your husband and do your "homework." For every headache you have there will be a women out there with an aspirin in her purse.
Jane Jenkins Herlong
#80. What chance has a Saint Francis, if his Assisi is a multicultured, financial, unyieldingly secular northern city, whose lepers and other detrimentals are charges on the public purse?
Robertson Davies
#81. You can match the queen coin for coin, I have no doubt, but she has a second purse that is quite inexhaustible.
George R R Martin
#82. There is a vast difference between having some coin and no coin. There is a feeling of helplessness that comes from an empty purse.
Patrick Rothfuss
#83. No eunuch flatters his tyrant more shamefully or seeks by more infamous means to stimulate his jaded appetite, in order to gain some favor, than does the eunuch of industry, the entrepreneur, in order to acquire a few silver coins or to charm the gold from the purse of his dearly beloved neighbor.
Karl Marx
#84. Any ninny with an honest heart, a scheming family, and an open purse can do that.
Philippa Gregory
#86. It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Washington Irving
#87. I hunt around in my purse. There are no more caramels or fuzzy Altoids, but I find what might be a cough drop. I hold it out to Henry, and he gives me a scared look, like I've just pulled out a knife.
Deb Caletti
#88. I am a lip person. I constantly need a really good lip moisturizer with me. Mine is a Clairin's moisture replenishing lip balm. I have two of them: I have one I keep next to my bed, so it's the first and last thing in the morning and evening, and then 10 times a day in my purse.
Lindy Booth
#89. A guy once told me that girls' purses reminded him of spiders.
P.C. Cast
#90. I turn to my mom as she sets her purse down on the table near the front door. I think about telling her. She deserves to know about the letter, I know that, but she was so proud of the fact that I was going to attend her alma mater and be a teacher just like her... I can't do it, not yet. "Oh...
Emma Keene
#91. Jessie rummaged through her purse for the necessary equipment. If there were one thing, Baley had once said solemnly, that had resisted mechanical improvement since medieval times, it was a woman's purse.
Isaac Asimov
#92. You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against you ...
Thomas Carlyle
#93. Sex sells, but doesn't work so well as a strong-arm tactic. Give me your purse or I'll make out with you so hard.
Dov Davidoff
#94. A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character
Thomas Jefferson
#95. Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.
Fanny Kemble
#96. A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
Thomas More
#97. A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.
Louise Wilder
#98. So you questioned him?" Raisa prompted. "What did he say for himself?"
"Well, the first thing Gillen does is steal his purse and beat him with a club." Amon said.
Cinda Williams Chima
#99. A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
Louise Brooks
#100. I froze like a startled bunny. Fumbling the disk into my purse, I cut my eyes toward the hallway.
Had I locked the front door?
Of course I had. Only a moron would break into someone's house and forget to lock the door.
Damn it! I'd forgotten to lock the door.
Lois Greiman
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