Honeyed Words Quotes

#1. When causes are vague and goals uncertain... it becomes necessary to fall back on the bloated and honeyed words of propaganda.

Peter Englund

#2. When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Euripides

#3. It seemed to me that the baker had an honest response to the painting. Van Ruijven tried too hard when he looked at paintings, with his honeyed words and studied expressions. He was too aware of having an audience to perform for, whereas the baker merely said what he thought.

Tracy Chevalier

#4. honeyed words, smooth as butter and strong as iron, fall on open ears.

Victoria Aveyard

#5. The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words but not to seem neutral, and above all to keep constantly audible, visible, likable, even kissable.

Learned Hand

#6. Lilith came to Longinus in the night, as she often did, and the darkness of the cave was filled with the lustful sounds of their passionate couplings. Afterwards, as he lay back with his eyes closed, she ran her cool fingers playfully across his chest and whispered honeyed words in his ear.

Alan Kinross

#7. He gave her body a raking gaze. "I doona give up my secrets that easily, lass. And it takes a lot more than honeyed words to persuade me. If ye must know, I prefer to be wooed first.

Victoria Roberts

#8. Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.

Charles De Lint

#10. A princess always takes care that her words are honeyed, for she may have to eat them

Christina Dodd

#11. It felt like he was trying to make it so I would never be able to kiss anyone else in my life without having to compare it to this moment.

Jay Crownover

#12. A few moments passed before he shrugged and said, "We can always start all over.

A.O. Peart

#13. Anyone who gets his or her political news primarily from the New York Times (which made the ethically challenged carpetbagger Hillary a senator) is a fool.

Camille Paglia

#14. I wanted the ideal personal life, but I also wanted to keep rushing off, and that doesn't work, not unless you've got an incredibly understanding partner.

Lynsey Addario

#15. I funded this guy [Ted Cruz]. I gave him a check.

Donald Trump

#16. A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#17. It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

Daniel Kahneman

#18. The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.

Tom Scharpling