Top 31 Drest Quotes
#1. Drest had made a careful study of the Discordian philosophy and realized it was the kind of outlandish nonsense that would appeal to the kind of people who made all the trouble in history-brilliant, intellectual, slightly deranged dope fiends and oddball math-and-technology buffs.
Robert Anton Wilson
#3. Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.
William Shakespeare
#4. Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
[Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome.]
George Herbert
#5. It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
Samuel Johnson
#6. Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,
George Herbert
#7. The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,
Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl
His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite
To sooty blackness from the purest white.
Ovid
#9. Religion, which true policy befriends,
Designed by God to serve man's noblest ends,
Is by that old deceiver's subtle play
Made the chief party in its own decay,
And meets the eagle's destiny, whose breast
Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest.
Katherine Philips
#10. Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast,
Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.
Lady, it is to be presumed,
Though art's hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Ben Jonson
#11. And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.
Thomas Gray
#12. And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman
#13. Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
With the wonderful water round you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast,
World, you are beautifully drest!
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#14. Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest ...
Phoebe Cary
#15. What is a butterfly? At best
He's but a caterpiller drest.
The gaudy Fop's his picture just.
Benjamin Franklin
#16. No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.
Edmund Spenser
#18. I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.
Richard Francis Burton
#19. I have confidence in my personality, because I think that if I talk to people hopefully they will like me, but I don't have confidence in my body.
Georgie Henley
#21. Secret to Productivity is single tasking: Focus only on one task at hand. And don't start another till that one is completely done
Vivek Naik
#22. She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.
J.K. Rowling
#23. When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.
Michael Bennet
#24. What is forgiveness? An emotion? A coping mechanism? An element of deepest faith? A way for the heart and soul to combat the type of hate, anger, rage and a thirst for revenge that could ultimately consume a person? All of those and more?
Mike Barnicle
#25. There was too much truth there, too much knowledge. It was like looking into the sun - painful. Just look down.
Pepper Winters
#27. I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
Wallace Shawn
#28. I didn't come here without a visa, like everyone from China and Vietnam and Cuba. I came here by special plane ... received by the ambassador, by the president of the United States. I should be the most honored man in your country.
Bikram Choudhury
#29. A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.
Sidney Poitier
#30. I think, retrospectivety helps to hone your ideas for future projects. I like it.
Seamus McGarvey
#31. Who are you, who is so wise in the way of alien fungus?
John Scalzi
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