Damp Quotes

124 quotes by 100 authors

It was a murky confusion â€” here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel â€” of flying… — Charles Dickens
The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops… — Charles Dickens
To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in… — Edvard Munch
Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. — Walt Whitman
The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the… — Roger Scruton
Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to… — Jean-Claude Ellena
If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a… — Gilbert Harding
I do have bad hair days. If I fall asleep with it slightly damp, I wake up and it'll all be piled up on top… — Georgia May Jagger
Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the… — Isaac D'Israeli
My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to.… — Jonathan Raban
Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing. — John Milton
Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like… — William Wordsworth
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency… — George Eliot
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it… — Evelyn Waugh
In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes… — Chuck Palahniuk
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies. — Neil Gaiman
Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects. — Oscar Wilde
She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy… — Terry Pratchett
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely… — Terry Pratchett
I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using… — Charles Dickens

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