Furtive Quotes

20 quotes by 20 authors

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
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
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
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
In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing. — Mason Cooley
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
Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence,… — Charles Dickens
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
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
Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always â€œover there,â€ with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive… — Susan Sontag
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
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
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
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
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
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
Itâ€™s a sort of furtiveness â€¦ Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge thereâ€™s no use flaunting on that… — Jack Kerouac
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
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
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: