Varnished Quotes

#1. She will figure out what happened to Lydia. She will find out who is responsible. She will find out what went wrong.

Celeste Ng

#2. On the other hand, I had to remind myself that, unlike you, I'm the sort of person whose imagination gets overstimulated from very little. And sometimes I get confused between what I've nakedly perceived and what I've varnished upon that perception.

Joseph Olshan

#3. Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live
But in a dream of friendship,
To have his pomp and all what state compounds
But only painted, like his varnished friends?

William Shakespeare

#4. It's always only ever been you. And it always will be, Beth. You have my heart. My love. And my regret that I am not the man you deserve.

Charlotte Featherstone

#5. If you are dressing up, then dress to the hilt, else let it go easy. But no matter what, pay attention to the nails. Whether you keep it short, long, varnished or plain, it has to look good.

Sonam Kapoor

#6. he despised the alternative flow of information and insight, which was gossip and rumor. Like Winston Smith, he was first and foremost activated by a raging thirst to know: a thirst that could only be slaked by a personal quest for the least varnished version of the truth.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. For neither do the spirits damned
Lose all their virtue, lest bad men should boast
Their specious deeds on earth which glory excites,
Or close ambition varnished o'er with zeal.

John Milton

#8. If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course on modern American history and use Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury as a primary text.

Brad Schneider

#9. I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.

John Milius

#10. She looked at his face and saw a monk and a detective, both beautiful and bizarre.

Lawren Leo

#11. Behold
The approach of him whom none believes,
Whom all believe that all believe,
A pagan in a varnished car.

Wallace Stevens

#12. A man who is not ready to risk is not worthy of getting promotion

Sunday Adelaja

#13. If the yacht's sails were wind-tattered, if its polished brass and varnished wood were scarred from a hundred successful voyages, it would have suited him, because character should always come before beauty.

Neal Shusterman

#14. I'd done an Edinburgh show before, in 1981, called 'The Importance of Being Varnished' - I was in the pun trade at the time.

Rory Bremner

#15. They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.

Elspeth Huxley

#16. Having me in the dining-room was almost the equivalent of having a Raeburn on the walls; I was classy, I was heavily varnished, and I offended nobody.

Robertson Davies

#17. She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile.

Stephen King