Allude Quotes

#1. In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

Frederick Lenz

#2. He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

Jorge Luis Borges

#3. Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

Umberto Eco

#4. I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!

Jules Verne

#5. Talking about my personal life onstage, I've realized I'm not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to it but I don't want to be a confessional performer ...

David Rees

#6. The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.

Rachel Cusk

#7. accidents, like women, allude

Ned Beauman

#8. The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made subservient to his wants and enjoyments; I allude to steam and electricity, under whatever name the latter may be called.

John C. Calhoun

#9. P.C. is the newspeak that the West uses nowadays to imply, allude to, or insinuate rather than to affirm or maintain.

Pope Benedict XVI

#10. We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

Edgar Allan Poe

#11. There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested ... I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#12. The buttons of his dark blue uniform allude to an ongoing border dispute with his soft belly.

Colson Whitehead

#13. I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.

King George V

#14. We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which the engine orders and combines its operations: we allude to the attainment of those combinations into which imaginary quantities enter.

Ada Lovelace

#15. Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport ... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.

Frank Crowninshield

#16. I don't ever feel that it's necessary to say certain things. I think we can be very suggestive. I think we can allude to certain things.

Teddy Pendergrass

#17. These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.

Frederick Lenz

#18. We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

J.J. Abrams

#19. they lived happily ever after,

Lois Lowry

#20. There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.

Jackie Stewart

#21. I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.

Aaron Schock

#22. I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the profounder the person, the greater the nation.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. Hate must make a person productive; otherwise one might as well love.

Karl Kraus

#24. The mother is the child's supreme parent.

Havelock Ellis