Top 27 Whet Quotes
#1. My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.
Epicurus
#3. Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.
Richard Bach
#4. Know your lover and what delights him or her, but also what he/she considers inappropriate. After all, you want to whet their appetite and create excitement, rather than make them upset.
Laura Ramirez
#5. As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.
Edward Young
#6. What was the first rule to getting someone to fall in line? Figure out what they need and give them a taste. Not enough to sate them, but enough to whet their appetite. Enough that they wanted more. Needed more.
Matthew FitzSimmons
#7. My crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#9. Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!
Lewis Carroll
#10. We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
John Barton
#12. But death wouldn't deter her killer. It would whet his appetite. He'd look at her corpse and see only an object of desire. Someone he can control. She doesn't resist him. She is cool, passive flesh, yielding to any and all indignities. She is the perfect lover. The
Tess Gerritsen
#13. The best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#14. The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
Mike Figgis
#15. I feel like I'm being eaten from the inside out and I can't tell anyone what's going on ...
Kevin Powers
#16. There is a fine line between pleasure and pain. I need both to feel fulfilled.
Felicity Brandon
#18. Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.
William Morris
#19. A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
[Baffled at a Bookcase (London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]
Alan Bennett
#20. For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.
John Cheever
#21. she was, whichever city or state, whatever mood she was in, there was nothing like a book store to fill her up with happiness.
Lauren Gilley
#22. It looks like they've been watching old Japan tapes!
CM Punk
#23. How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me
the boy whose real name is powerful enough to keep us alive in a train car full of enemies?
Veronica Roth
#24. Desperately looking for a vital but lost bit of paperwork or just frantically masturbating to the Eroica symphony.
David Mitchell
#25. There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
Lou Gehrig
#26. I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
Fidel Castro
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