Quotes About Dalliance

#1. Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own read.

William Shakespeare

#2. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known three centuries, poets sing, Of dalliance with a demon thing.

W.B.Yeats

#3. Now all the youth of England are on fire,
And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies;
Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought
Reigns solely in the breast of every man.

William Shakespeare

#4. All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down information.

Eugene H. Peterson

#5. A dalliance with poetry before we dance.

Delano Johnson

#6. A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.

Adam Carolla

#7. The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.

E.B. White

#8. Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.

William Shakespeare

#9. The idea that reading is a moral quality has unhappily led many conscientious persons to renounce their innocuous dalliance with light literature for more strenuous intercourse. These are the persons who "make it a rule to read.

Edith Wharton

#10. I do not understand dalliance, Lord Ponsonby." "But you are d-drawn to it, Mrs. Keeping.

Mary Balogh

#11. France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood.

Arnold Bennett

#12. For a woman to say she has had a dalliance with another woman is quite trendy these days. I do not like trendiness. Life isn't about dalliances - it's about individuals. You come across people in your life that you find very interesting. It's not about something flighty.

Saffron Burrows

#13. If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?'

Coventry Patmore

#14. By depriving the charged person of any defenses [the rulings] mean that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterize it.

Robert Bork

#15. Whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

Lionel Shriver

#16. It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it.

John Sherman Cooper

#17. I don't think it's things that used to be that haunt us, but things that could have been.

Matthew Baker

#18. Love is supreme and unconditional. Like is nice, but limited.

Duke Ellington

#19. Being thankful for life itself is a way of making life better. When we look away from our problems, even for a short time, and generate joy in our hearts, we find that the world seems to change a bit.

John Harricharan

#20. You love your children so much, you do everything to try to protect them, and they don't even appreciate it.

Kevin Kwan

#21. It's not that I'm angry;
You've done nothing wrong.
I'm just not sure why I'm staying
When you're already gone.

Margo T. Rose

#22. This is definitely it," he says. "The attack simulation serum, I mean. No question."
"It's always good to have another person verify," Matthew says.
I am standing with my brother in the hours before he dies. And he is analyzing serums. It's so stupid.

Veronica Roth

#23. Those that say they can and those that say they can't are probably both correct.

Anonymous

#24. I try to match Raffe's stealth and smooth coordination, but my frozen limbs are clumsy, and I have to grab him several times to keep myself from tipping over. He throws me a look with a clear message that I should deal with my issues.

Susan Ee

#25. We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.

Bjorn Lomborg

#26. Cycling is suffering.

Fausto Coppi

#27. You would die of boredom in my body." "No, I'd take that young thing out for a spin and liven things up a little." I roll my eyes. "I'm sure you would. You'd have me screwing my way through greater Atlanta." "Breakin' hearts and blowin' minds! Or blowin' something," she says with a devilish wink.

M. Leighton