Simpering Quotes

#1. Eleanor's greatest grievance was not a simpering lass with flaxen hair and smooth skin. It was Aquitaine, always Aquitaine.

Sharon Kay Penman

#2. She turned you down because you are a simpering, pompous buffoon!" he muttered impatiently, feeling too angry at Mr Collins' words to rein in his private thoughts.

E. Bradshaw

#3. I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

Camille Paglia

#4. I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla.

Edward Dahlberg

#6. It is foolish for Rubens to show her simpering. They were clearly guilty and did her much sorrow.

Jack Gilbert

#7. When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

Julie Burchill

#8. I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

P.C. Cast

#9. I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, 'I love you. How about getting married?

Betty Smith

#10. It has not the arrogance of wine, the self- consciousness of coffee, nor the simpering innocence of cocoa.

Okakura Kakuzo

#11. I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but I had mercy cut out of me at a young age.

A.F. Stewart

#12. A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Tacitus

#13. Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.

Jakob Bohme

#14. Annabelle coughs and glares at Blue. "What did you do? Did I just swallow something?"
Blue pulls her into a hug. "You're my best friend in the whole world."
"Get off me, leech," she says, smiling.

Victoria Scott

#15. You never write a catchphrase; you never write something and say, 'This is going to be a catchphrase.' You just write the show, and then in the course of the show, somebody says something, and for some reason it gets a laugh.

Jeremy Lloyd

#16. Unless a man has something to lift, he can never find out how strong he is.

Opie Read

#17. I can't curse those who don't believe as I do. I can't express hate or disdain for those who criticize what I hold dear. I can't outshout, bully, or taunt them. I can't exercise the liberty of free speech because I answer to a higher law.
I answer to the Word of God.

Lori Hatcher

#18. Then they pull onto Route 66, heading east into a world that's ripe for saving

Neal Shusterman

#19. I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

David Massengill

#20. I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star ... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

Lady Gaga

#21. One cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life. Those who listen to us and observe us must be able to see in our actions what they hear from our lips, and so give glory to God!

Pope Francis