Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

Octave Mirbeau

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

P. J. O'Rourke

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

Omar N. Bradley

The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. ... Eisenhower's face whitened into a mask. Patton walked over to a corner and sickened. I was too revolted to speak. For here death had been so fouled by degradation that it both stunned and numbed us. ...

Rachel Caine

Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice? Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.

Peter Ackroyd

And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'

Peter Gabriel

I like the touch and the smell of all the pretty dresses you wear.

Kelly Rowland

I love a nicely groomed guy who smells good. That's important.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.

Woody Allen

It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

William Shatner

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

Paul Newman

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.

Marshall McLuhan

Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.

Margot Asquith

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

Learned Hand

I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

Kathy Griffin

Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true.

Margaret Deland

by some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed ...

Pope Francis

It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

English 14th Century Proverbs

He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon.

Tryon Edwards

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

Tori Amos

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

William Peter Blatty

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

Sam Keller

Pat Tillman is a legend -- he'll never go away. He was a Sun Devil and so are we. That makes it special.

Kevin Towers

I really think the Devil Rays rushed him to the big leagues, and that set him back. He's a power pitcher with a great change-up. ... He has a world of potential, but we need to be patient with him. If we do this right, he could be a really good pitcher for us.

Peter Douglas

I haven't seen a tiger yet. But then I would be happy just to see a devil.

Joni Mitchell

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

James Joyce

God made food; the devil the cooks.