Hiss Quotes
47 quotes by 43 authors
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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
— Aesop
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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
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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
— Horace
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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
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Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.
— Anne Sexton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.
— John Lydon
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump…
— Ben Jonson
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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
Who Wrote These Hiss Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 47 Hiss Quotes, led by these top contributors: