Hiss Quotes

47 quotes by 43 authors

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. — Aesop
Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about… — Julie Burchill
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest. — Horace
The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the… — Julia Gillard
Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day. — Anne Sexton
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or… — Eleanor Roosevelt
The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace,… — Conrad Aiken
Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough. — Gary Snyder
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up… — Whittaker Chambers
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. — Samuel Johnson
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot… — Edwin Percy Whipple
[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the… — David Frum
The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above… — Charlotte Bronte
Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case… — Diana Trilling
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you,… — Whittaker Chambers
It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get… — T Bone Burnett
You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental. — John Lydon
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump… — Ben Jonson
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss.… — Bette Davis

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