Top 27 Fulsome Quotes
#1. May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.
Charles Lamb
#2. Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.
Rick Perlstein
#3. Sir Brian told him in fulsome scatological terms what he could do with his lineage.
Gordon R. Dickson
#4. Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.
David Lodge
#5. The blurbs on the flyleaf, written by leading American historians, were fulsome, praising the book for shedding light on a forgotten chapter in colonial history.
Teju Cole
#6. I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so.
Neil Gaiman
#7. Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear;
'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear.
Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear,
But what thou art.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#8. Some people can sit and enjoy the view ... some people like to take photos to feel complete. I need to somehow possess it in some other way. I just have to somehow grasp it and take it home in a more fulsome way. It's where ideas come from.
Graeme Base
#9. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#10. I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.
Richard Cobden
#11. Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base;
Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence,
Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh
When morning shines upon it.
Joanna Baillie
#12. I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis.
Philippe Dauman
#13. A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
George Jean Nathan
#14. I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
Sam Worthington
#15. A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.
Catherine Anderson
#17. The mind is a temple;
negative thoughts defile it.
The heart is a temple;
positive desires elevate it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#18. The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#20. Seattle is the only city where you step in shit and you pray, Please God, let this be dog shit.
Maria Semple
#21. If a woman has been married three years or more, you come to learn that she's usually easier to sleep with than a single woman.
Neil Strauss
#22. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate ... Choose science.
Carl Sagan
#23. Dope and diamonds, dope and diamonds, that's all that I want
Lana Del Rey
#24. It's in the eyes, mostly. Don't listen just to the other actor's lines. Look at - and listen to - their eyes. That's where the emotion comes through.
Charlize Theron
#25. In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.
Daisaku Ikeda
#26. I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I knew a girl working on a stall who was with Take Two model agency, so I decided to go along, and they took me on.
Saffron Aldridge
#27. Any anger I feel vanishes. What is left cannot be described. It is guilt piled onto emptiness and set afire.
Bryan Reardon
