Frigid Quotes

37 quotes by 36 authors

Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it… — Edward McKendree Bounds
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are… — Tertullian
Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its… — Samuel Johnson
Show me a frigid woman and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man. — Julie Burchill
Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they… — Erica Jong
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously… — Jean de la Bruyere
The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate… — Philip K. Chapman
A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox. — Max O'Rell
It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger… — Robert Cormier
People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in… — Amy Gerstler
I was uncomfortable because I had never been that nude before. I had never shown my legs, and never shown quite that much skin. I… — Mariette Hartley
All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search… — Marguerite Yourcenar
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow… — James Dwight Dana
Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived? — William Butler Yeats
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty… — Samuel Johnson
Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show. — Fanny Brice
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of… — Phyllis McGinley
Sleep came slower than a frigid woman. — Kinky Friedman
I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon… — Ogden Nash

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