Furtive Quotes
20 quotes by 20 authors
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As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of…
— Edward Abbey
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I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and…
— Frank A. Vanderlip
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Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet…
— Marcel Proust
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Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow…
— Edward Dahlberg
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In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
— Mason Cooley
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The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life…
— Peter Ho Davies
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Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence,…
— Charles Dickens
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Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .
— Elie Wiesel
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We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and…
— Daphne du Maurier
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Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,†with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive…
— Susan Sontag
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That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do…
— Joanne Harris
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Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that…
— Bertrand Russell
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So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey…
— George R. R. Martin
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He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.
— Philip K. Dick
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It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that…
— Jack Kerouac
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You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some…
— Megan McCafferty
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I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I…
— Rosemary Mahoney
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Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive…
— Kara Swisher
Who Wrote These Furtive Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 20 Furtive Quotes as follows: