Rakish Quotes

#1. I am my own rakish seducer. I do serve as my own surly, brutish bounder.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. The gleam in those green-brown eyes was positively rakish. She hadn't thought City had a speck of rakishness in him.

Ruthie Knox

#3. Lady Mary came last. She looked magnificent, even regal. Her dress was highly fashionable; dark slate blue overlaid with black fleur-de-lis and stitched with jet beads across the throat and bosom, the sleeves garnered. A black hat adorned her head at a rakish angle, dashing and precarious.

Anne Perry

#4. I give Finn a wicked smile. "Don't you think a peg leg would be charming? Like a pirate? The first mate of the Calypso had one, didn't he?"
"It would add a certain rakish factor. Have you got a spare eye patch?"
"Be serious, you two. Gangrene is no laughing matter," Mrs. O'Hare scolds.

Jessica Spotswood

#5. Your innocence is on at such a rakish angle it gives you quite an air of iniquity.

Christopher Fry

#6. Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle, but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. Trust me."
This being had saved her life, had even taken bullets for her, and yet there was something so markedly
untrustworthy about him ... .
He flashed her a rakish grin with barely noticeable fangs. "Though if you're the praying type, now might be a choice
time.

Kresley Cole

#8. I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.

Michael Sheen

#9. Kishan stretched out his hand and touched and earring lightly. His rakish pirate about-to-make-off-with-your-woman-and-what-do-you-think-you're-gonna-do-about-it look melted away to a soft smile that turned up the corner of his mouth.

Colleen Houck

#10. Its treasures, as I love them, are imprinted in my memory; and if they are wrongly memorized
a lily where there are tulips, the boy's torn hat rakish at the wrong angle
then this only makes the pictures more mine.

Claire Messud

#11. Rowan's physical effect- godlike jawline, long-lashed eyes, umber skin, rakish quiff of hair- is that of lightening strike.

Helen Oyeyemi

#12. There's no denying the fact he is really, really good-looking, in this rakish, edgy, badass, I-just-rolled-out-of-bed-and-screw-you-I-don't-need-a-mirror kind of way.

Hannah Harrington

#13. If it weren't for the negative programming that made us believe otherwise, why should we go through any cost of pain and suffering to achieve anything in our life? Isn't that a rather sadistic view of the world and the universe?

David R. Hawkins

#14. Any serious pondering of all of life through the Golden Rule is dangerous for our moral health because it will summon us - I know I feel this way just writing the above paragraphs - to live under the King and as one of his kingdom citizens.

Scot McKnight

#15. If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#16. He would be relegated to a post best left fastened and buried.

Anthony Doerr

#17. I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.

Stanislaw Ulam

#18. Ask your angel to console and assist you in your last moments.

John Bosco

#19. I'm so not scary. I'm a pussycat. But what are you going to do, right? I mean, these cheekbones, and I guess these eyes, and the big nose ... this is what my momma and my poppa gave to me, and that's the deal.

Kim Coates

#20. The power of religious dogma, when inculcated early, is such as to stifle conscience, compassion, and finally every feeling of humanity.

Arthur Schopenhauer