Flout Quotes

#1. Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Even disobedient children never question the fact that their parents have that right. They may choose to flout the rules, but they don't question their parents' right to make those rules.

The Mirror Of Maybe

#2. Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them. The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve.

Ilana Mercer

#3. Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

Jose Marti

#4. We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god. Indeed, those who discriminate against nonbelievers flout the principle of religious tolerance that they often profess.

Norman Dorsen

#5. Why am I not surprised you'd think you could flout

Denise Grover Swank

#6. That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em,
We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.

Frederic Reynolds

#7. Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

Amy Vanderbilt

#8. They drew a line that shut me out,
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout!
But love and I had the wit to win
We drew a circle and brought them in.

Edwin Markham

#9. He drew a circle that shut me out-
Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In !
From the poem Outwitted

Edwin Markham

#10. Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man,
That I did never, no, nor never can,
Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye,
But you must flout my insufficiency?

William Shakespeare

#11. He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?

William Shakespeare

#13. Traditional businesses are profit maximizers, which square perfectly with Motivation 2.0. These new entities are purpose maximizers - which are unsuited to this older operating system because they flout its very principles.

Daniel H. Pink

#14. LEONATO O, she tore the letter into a thousand half-pence; railed at herself, that she should be so immodest to write to one that she knew would flout her. 'I measure him,' says she, 'by my own spirit; for I should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I love him, I should.

William Shakespeare

#15. Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.

Janet Morris

#16. He would learn the truth. Tonight he would flout his own rules. Meet the girl alone. Ask her a single question. He could afford that.

Renee Ahdieh

#17. Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

Cardinal Richelieu

#18. Running away has been futile. Wherever I went life would be the same. Resisting my chains only seem to tighten them. Yet all around me women found ways to slip those bonds, to discreetly flout the rules and then return to their so-called captivity before anyone noticed.

Sherry Jones

#19. Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.

Hanif Kureishi

#20. New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.

Willow Bay

#21. The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

Martin Luther

#22. Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; / Thought is free.

William Shakespeare

#23. It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.

Rick Scott

#24. No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout the necessity for spreading people through time of day without frustrating its potential for generating diversity.

Jane Jacobs

#25. You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance ... But I may flout the standards? ... Of course. What do you think standards are for?

Caroline Stevermer

#26. We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

Gloria Gaither

#27. Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Alan Moore

#28. Woman with child? Look at Quinn and Marcail." "Aye, I know," Logan said. "I've no desire to have one of the women attached to me. I might flirt, but I'm staying out of their beds.

Donna Grant

#29. I can honestly say that I'm not a person who thinks about awards, as much I think about the work itself.

Oprah Winfrey

#30. I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

Samuel Adams