Supple Quotes

48 Supple quotes by 38 unique authors

You need to get in touch with your body ... do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's coordinated, preferably. You have… — Jacqueline Bisset
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the… — Aldo Leopold
Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. — Charles Caleb Colton
It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees. — William Shakespeare
Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. — Samuel Johnson
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks. — John Vianney
Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at… — Emily Dickinson
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for… — Isadora Duncan
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as… — D. H. Lawrence
That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn… — Bruce Springsteen
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. — Edith Wharton
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts —… — Charlotte Bronte
As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him.… — Arundhati Roy
may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if… — E E Cummings
Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:… — Joe Dunthorne
A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was… — Gregory Maguire
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
Even now, my back was still arched with sensual invitation, my bottom was questing up like a cat in heat, and my every move was… — Karen Marie Moning
Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like… — Jodi Picoult
I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed… — Anna Funder
The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the… — Diana Gabaldon
Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato… — Charles Baudelaire
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire

Who Wrote These Supple Quotes

38 authors contributed a total of 48 Supple Quotes, led by these top contributors: