Surreptitious Quotes
9 quotes by 9 authors
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For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure…
— James M. Barrie
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I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious,…
— Bruce Davison
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All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Is O used by René and Sir Stephen, or does she in fact use them, and...all those irons and chains and obligatory debauchery, to fulfill…
— Anne Desclos
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So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me…
— Cees Nooteboom
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Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered.…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the…
— David Lack
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People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the…
— Terry Pratchett
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She gave Pretty Boy a surreptitious glance. Did he honestly expect her to believe he was gay? True, there were the gay boots and those…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Who Wrote These Surreptitious Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 9 Surreptitious Quotes as follows: