Savors Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent. — Thomas Merton
The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for… — Edmund Waller
The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it… — John Ramsay McCulloch
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought… — William Hazlitt
Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against… — John Podhoretz
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly… — Marilynne Robinson
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twentyâˆ’one that everything afterward savors of antiâˆ’climax. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection:… — Camille Paglia
Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds… — Erin Morgenstern
I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash… — Karen Marie Moning
The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest. — Edmund Waller
Fortune favors, flavors and savors the brave. — John Alejandro King

Who Wrote These Savors Quotes

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