Top 25 Quotes About Insinuation
#1. Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault,
Yusef Komunyakaa
#2. The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.
George Mikes
#3. If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#4. Rather than giving out information someone would be able to check, it's better to limit yourself to insinuation.
Umberto Eco
#5. Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.
Masiela Lusha
#6. We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot.'
Ken Jennings
#7. Being sexy is not about what's on show, it's all about suggestion, or insinuation. I'm interested in the way a garment hangs on a woman's body and the way it moves when she moves.
Francisco Costa
#9. [ ... ] The most effective insinuation is the one that gives facts that are valueless in themselves, yet cannot be denied because they are true.
Umberto Eco
#10. In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#11. The game may have ended and the tomb have glided away,
But the impressions on the heart are growing brighter;
Oh, how I understood you: both the warmth's insinuation and
The splendor of flowerbeds where decay is showing through...
("August")
Innokenty Annensky
#12. I scorned the insinuation of helplessness and distraction, shook off his hand, and began to walk about again.
Charlotte Bronte
#13. The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.
Lord Chesterfield
#14. This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#15. Shall we upon the footing of our land
Send fair-play orders, and make compromise,
Insinuation, parley, and base truce,
To arms invasive?
William Shakespeare
#16. Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.
Cynthia Ozick
#17. All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be justly said to unhinge the principles of morality, and destroy the means of making men reasonably virtuous.
George Berkeley
#18. Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _to do_. Action _may_ be hypocrisy, but being is the thing itself, and is the parent of action.
George MacDonald
#19. When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
J. William Fulbright
#20. I got a shotgun and a backhoe and no one looks under a septic tank for a dead body. (Bubba)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#21. Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
Brett Ratner
#22. I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.
Jay Parini
#23. He liked to say that what makes literature is "inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is truer than what you might remember.
Paul Hendrickson
#25. Ty wanted to crack Gerard Butler's head against a brick wall.
Bella Andre
