Quotes About Insinuating

#1. The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

Nicholas Cresswell

#2. Degredation is the subtlest drug, the most insinuating. But they could do nothing to me I had not already imagined.

Angela Carter

#3. No, you simply sit there with your arms crossed nodding with that timeless patience that communicates condescension and judgment without exposing you to responsibility for insinuating anything aloud.

David Foster Wallace

#4. If you're insinuating that my personal hygiene is not up to the same high standard as yours you can go suck my galoshes.

Alan Bradley

#5. Like the voice of a number of homosexuals, this is an insinuating blend of eagerness and caution in which even such words as "hello" and "goodbye" seem not so much uttered as divulged.

Quentin Crisp

#6. Instead he stood erect, the snow insinuating itself down his collar and up his sleeves, plastering against his face and into his unblinking eyes.

Louise Penny

#7. Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

Confucius

#8. I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don't believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people's innermost thoughts are their own.

Marilynne Robinson

#9. Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.

Seneca.

#10. A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

Lord Chesterfield

#11. I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.

Luisa Valenzuela

#12. Our essential embodiment will keep interrupting our Platonic desire to do away with the body, will keep insinuating itself into our dualistic discourses to remind us that the triune God of creation traffics in ashes and dust, blood and bodies, fish and bread. And he pronounces all of it very good

James K.A. Smith

#13. Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

Winston Churchill

#14. I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#15. The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

Joseph Joubert

#16. She was the beautiful, lethal, insinuating spider he had waited for all his life.

Robert Goolrick

#17. Boots, I told you that I'd never walk away again. I'm a man of my word, he says sternly. Clearly insinuating that I'm the opposite of that.

Jillian Dodd

#18. That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen ... It moreover equally enables the general and state governments to originate the amendment of errors as they may be pointed out by the experience on one side or on the other.

James Madison

#19. By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed could not be credible. So I became a philosophy major at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.

Stanley Hauerwas

#20. Honor the dead, treasure the living. For we are saved for a later grave to receive Thy eternal grace.

Kenyatta Kelechi

#21. All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Luc De Clapiers

#22. Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

George Eliot

#23. I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked.

Bill Murray

#24. I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.

Anne Heche