Flogged Quotes

#1. Beautiful maiden," answered Candide, "when a man is in love, is jealous, and has been flogged by the Inquisition, he becomes lost to all reflection.

Voltaire

#2. The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a school boy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.

Lord Byron

#3. No damsel was ever in more distress, no dray horse more flogged, no defenseless child more drunkenly abused than the English language today. And

Robert Hartwell Fiske

#4. I want you to know,' said Damen, carefully, 'that I haven't done anything to encourage the idea that I-that you and I-'
'If I thought you had, I'd have had you tied to a post and flogged until your front matched your back.

C.S. Pacat

#5. Being Ymor's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces.

Terry Pratchett

#6. I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder.

Chuck Lorre

#7. It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

Mark Twain

#8. Onye nkuzi ewelu itali piagbusie umuaka. One of the ways an emphasis is laid in Ibo is by exaggeration, so that the teacher in the refrain might not actually have flogged the children to death.

Chinua Achebe

#9. Metaphors were so bloody: people shot messengers,, flogged dead horses, cut the throats of their competitors. Perhaps that was life; perhaps that's what it was really like.

Alexander McCall Smith

#10. She made a blunder that not even a twelve-year-old would commit, which only proved that her brain was being eaten up by worms and that she deserved to be flogged.

Stieg Larsson

#11. You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways
but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

Hunter S. Thompson

#12. Your topsoil's a disaster area - it's starved for nitrogen, it's been fertilized for years by the criminally insane, and whatever thief put in your irrigation system ought to be flogged through the fleet.

Peter S. Beagle

#13. Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

Avicenna

#14. I would've loved to return to me home of Ireland, but Joshua never made the bloody pikes he was flogged for.

Sharon Robards

#15. I am fairly tired
bored beyond endurance
by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

Henry Adams

#16. Bloody hell, Kitten. Never thought to be flogged by my own furniture. Do you know I saw bloomin' stars when that cracked over my nog?

Jeaniene Frost

#17. We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

Cleo Moore

#18. Back to these young criminals - They probably were not spanked as babies; they certainly were not flogged for their crimes.

Robert A. Heinlein

#19. Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.

Jeff Smith

#20. I've fucked you, licked you, bound you, flogged you, and spanked you. Jesus, Lilly, how much more do you want to get to know each other?

Ella Dominguez

#21. But that was just a shadow of what would come to pass:
When one appointed season Christ came to die at last.
And in the name of justice they flogged him like a thief,
But willing was the victim of human disbelief.

Joyce Rachelle

#22. My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may do.

Voltaire

#23. There is nothing more that I wish than to see my marks on you. The blush of red after I've flogged your sweet ass. I want to tie you up so that you are completely helpless and at my mercy, but honey, I'll have the most tender of mercies with you.

Maya Banks

#24. When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint ... were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.

James Agee

#25. Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Samuel Johnson

#26. I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

Theophilus London

#27. All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life

John Cheever

#28. Time isn't circular," she said to Dr. Kellet. "It's like a ... palimpsest.

Kate Atkinson

#29. as well. Any pretense I had that I was prepared was quickly replaced with the pain I'd become

George Hincapie

#30. Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

D.H. Lawrence

#31. [On Sting] He threw a sucker punch. There's the sucker who threw the punch. Him the the Bart Simpson hair doo.

Bobby Heenan