We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods with smoky wings, entangles them. — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.” — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I am a Lolita. I do not believe in growing up. No matter how old I get, I shall remain devoted to… — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers. — Anne Heche Copy Share Image
Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a lolita. I don't believe in growing up. No matter how old I get I remain devoted to ruffles and… — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
The dancer's trembling heart must bring everything into harmony, from the tips of her shoes to the flutter of her eyelashes, from… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things… — Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly… — Giambattista Valli Copy Share Image
How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Anytime I feel my feathers ruffle off of someone else's success, I have to check myself. It's normally fear based or ego… — Kathryn Budig Copy Share Image
It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The [Nobel] award [of Bob Dylan] is no affront to literature; it is an insult to pop music. It is a condescending… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
She reached inside the wide ruffle and pulled out a little vial. “Poison?” asked Lady Maccon, tilting her head to one side.… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[President Donald Trump] is doing exactly what he promised to do.When you come in as an outsider and you own no one… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist,… — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock." He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you… — Totie Fields Copy Share Image
If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I have, of all the inglorious things, a malignant hemorrhoid. What color bracelet does one wear for that? And where does one… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile,… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Miss Tarabotti was not certain if he was objecting to the kick or the scream, so she issued both again— with interest.… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games are for 'the youth of the world,' but they're organized and scored by countries. It's no surprise that countries… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
![“The [Nobel] award [of Bob Dylan] is no affront to literature; it is an insult to pop music. It is a condescending ruffle of pop's hair while handing it a lollipop. An act of beaming condescension whose transparent message is: "This one guy, and just this one guy, he's so good, he transcends his…” quote by David Bennun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f2e/david-bennun-25818_affront_the-nobel-award-of-bob-dylan-is-no-affro_1780840.jpg)
![“[President Donald Trump] is doing exactly what he promised to do.When you come in as an outsider and you own no one anything and you're going to disrupt a bureaucracy that is so entrenched that the - you've got to just get it out by root and branch, the tentacles are so deep and so clinging to…” quote by Kellyanne Conway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bc5/kellyanne-conway-1450_branches_president-donald-trump-is-doing-exactly_1910225.jpg)
