Blandishment Quotes

#1. They would know that inconsistency in human decision can make nonsense of the best-planned espionage approach; that cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a Departmental canteen.

John Le Carre

#2. Be concentrated and leonine
in the hunt for what is your true nourishment.
Don't be distracted by blandishment-noises,
of any sort.

Rumi

#3. It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. [On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.

Bette Davis

#5. Because of his hormones, he only has three emotions: crabby, hungry, horny.

Sherry Argov

#6. I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

Tamsin Greig

#7. Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science.

Allan Bloom

#8. When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.

Maureen Murdock

#9. I wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long.

Cilla Black

#10. Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.

Francoise Sagan