Quotes About Flogging

#1. The new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.

Betty Friedan

#2. He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

Anthony Trollope

#3. I plan to live to be 98, so I'll be the guy at Dundas and Yonge flogging a box of mouldy novels.

Michael Winter

#4. On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging,

Robert Hughes

#5. When I got tired, Logan would sing me to sleep, sometimes a painfully appropriate song like Flogging Molly's "If I Ever Leave This World Alive" or Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars." Sometimes he'd pick a lilting Irish lullaby, or even a song he'd written himself.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#6. Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just - his turn!

Peter Ustinov

#7. I've been flogging myself to keep my fitness up there.

Willie Mason

#8. Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

Robin Day

#9. It's from a Celtic group. Flogging Molly," was all he said. Tom went onto iTunes and found the song easily enough: "If I Ever Leave This World Alive.

S.E. Jakes

#10. When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

Kenny Smith

#11. If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.

Ze Frank

#12. The lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.

Aldous Huxley

#13. The dance industry is flogging a dead house.

The Irresistible Force

#14. You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching the birds or thinking about what you would like to be doing out of doors, instead of flogging yourself to work out of sheer boredom.

Mary Stewart

#15. And if we're talking flaws - I get a kick out of flogging people, then fucking them."

Warmth ran up Sam's spine. "That's a flaw?"

Michael grinned. "Only to some.

Anna Zabo

#16. Then I guess this is Donovan versus Davis. See you here tomorrow at six. Don't forget your thong and your flogging thingy.

Dakota Cassidy

#17. Punishments included hanging by the thumbs, toes barely touching the ground; bucking and gagging, being trussed like a turkey with a bit cutting the mouth; spread-eagling on a spare wheel, mocking crucifixion; flogging; and branding.

Michael C.C. Adams

#18. Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.

Ellen Key

#19. This is going to feel like a public flogging.

Lisa Renee Jones

#20. Well, I hope your hard self enjoys flogging the bishop tonight!

Jeaniene Frost

#21. Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.

Andrew Johns

#22. There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Samuel Johnson

#23. I begin, then, with some remarks about 'the meaning of a word.' I think many persons now see all or part of what I shall say: but not all do, and there is a tendency to forget, or to get it slightly wrong. In so far as I am merely flogging the converted, I apologize to them.

J.L. Austin

#24. And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stupid, but it is not unconstitutional. A lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional.

Antonin Scalia

#25. In that rich earth a richer dust concealed.
(I'm flogging a dead horse w/ this one but this is the 1st time I've even seen this quotes feature! I just wanted to post something.)

Rupert Brooke

#26. The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law will not interfere to compel him. The master must do his own flogging, as in the case of an ox or a horse.

Lysander Spooner

#27. A reviewer's lot is not always an easy one. I can remember flogging myself to finish Harold Brodkey's 'The Runaway Soul' despite the novel's consummate, unmitigated tedium.

Michael Dirda

#28. Flogging will continue until morale improves.

Julie Klassen

#29. 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

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

Terry Pratchett

#31. Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.

Herman Melville