Best Supple Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“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.”

Men May Shows Pride Proud Glasses Knees Arrogance Fees Supple Proud Man

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings

“Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.”

Asks Vote Throat Patriot Tribes Bribe Bribery Supple

Book:Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone

Source: Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone

“The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.”

Difficult Virtue Inspire Tasks Difficulty Obedience Difficult Tasks Supple

Author: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 last with bugles.”

Firsts Lasts Death Winning Dying Approach Brave Innuendo Wooing Supple Suitors

Author:Emily Dickinson

“Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.”

“The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.”

Soul Enough Dream Desire Fantasy Lyrical Supple

Author:Claude Debussy

“A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!”

Two Body Fall Dark Mystery Rivers Heavy Slips Crash Woe Monstrous Thighs Women's Bodies Swirls Supple Whirlpools

Book:the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

“It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.”

Feels Littles Reason Body Rounds Pregnancy Supple

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet -- only 30 or 40 minutes every other day. I keep supple for myself more than for roles.”

Littles I Can Bits Roles Minutes Little Bit Yoga Gains Work Out Ballet Supple

Author:Julie Andrews

“It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.”

Men May Principles Honesty Easier Ruins Firm Yield Ruined Scruples Supple Knavery

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.”

Thinking Way Want Mind Children Sometimes Hands Eye Games Intelligent Our Children Your Children Coordination Supple Lateral Thinking

Author:Salman Rushdie

“night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.”

Self Night Games Strong Easy Sleep Golf Controlled Accurate Morrow Murmuring Supple Dashing

Book:What happened next

Source: What happened next

“Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.”

Play My Own Groups Team Bones Resistance Contempt Wet Cement Marrow Supple

Author:Florence King

“I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.”

Thinking Facts Speech Accused Sly Supple Adverbs Parts Of Speech

Author:Eleanor Catton

“The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals, water to sound, fire to form: life flickers uncounted into the supple arms of love.”

Earth Form Sound Water Born Fire Blood Rocks Color Arms Heavy Flesh Shoulders Sensuality Sensual Crystals Thighs Flicker Supple

Book:Out of silence: selected poems

Source: Out of silence: selected poems

“I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going to HQ at Schleswig in my 'Grand Charles.' Coming back I had taken him high up in the cloudless summer sky, for it was only there that I could fittingly take my leave. Together we climbed for the last time straight towards the sun. We looped once, perhaps twice, we lovingly did a few slow, meticulous rolls, so that I could take away in my finger-tips the vibration of his supple, docile wings.”

Made Together Lasts Morning Sun Gone Taken Sky Summer Wings Fingers Flight Aviation Last Time Farewell Coming Back Vibrations Docile Supple Meticulous Raf

Author:Pierre Clostermann

“The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced life stories, but reading Stach's magnificent narrative (wonderfully translated by Shelley Frisch) straight through brings death, not life, to the forefront. Stach is a compulsively readable writer. . . . [A]s in the previous volume, the prose in The Years of Insight is supple and very appealingly complex--all of which, once again, is perfectly rendered by Frisch.”

Years Stories Reading Complexes Insight Narrative Prose Volume Magnificent Epic Biographies Life Story Supple Shelley

Author:Steve Donoghue

“It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.”

Knows Paint Extraordinary Mediums Supple

Book:Francis Bacon

Source: Francis Bacon

“If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.”

Ifs Mind Prison Punishment Offenders Supple

Book:Locke, Berkely and Hume

Source: Locke, Berkely and Hume

“It's very important to stretch, because while it's good to look pumped, a lot of the moves are split legs, and twisting fast. So you really, really have to stay supple.”

Looks Important Moving Legs Splits Supple

Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.”

Powerful Cameras Instruments Description Pens Supple

Book:Diana and Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography

Source: Diana and Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography

“In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The story line or plot in nonfiction consists of the twists and turns of a thought process working itself out.”

Mind Made Stories Seems Turns Process Lines Engaged Plot Nonfiction Twists Thought Process Supple Twists And Turns

Book:To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

Source: To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

“To my mind, Death in Venice represents an enormous advance in Mann's literary development, not simply for the commonly appreciated reason that he crafted a superbly supple and elegant style, apparently well suited to the kind of prose Aschenbach is supposed to write.”

Writing Mind Wells Kind Reason Style Development Enormous Prose Elegant Appreciated Venice Supple Death In Venice

Author:Philip Kitcher

“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 to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.”

Giving May Reason Turns Nature Kissing Fishes Absurdity Slippery Nymphs Supple

Book:Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence

Source: Selected Poems of 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 on a dime.”

Men Ideas Turns Fronts Machines Turn-on Dimes Supple

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.”

Made Literature Easy Break Substance Misfortunes Lilies Supple Stiffness

Book:The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton

Source: The House of Mirth: 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 — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“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. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace.”

Made Left Given Quality Grace Understood Labor Woods Nails Stamps Supple

Book:The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“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 men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it's sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young and may myself do nothing usefully and love yourself so more than truly there's never been quite such a fool who could fail pulling all the sky over him with one smile”

Ifs Knows Men Should Mind Heart May Littles Young Secret Failing Sky Fool My Heart Bird And Love Hungry Fearless Sunday Love Yourself Pulling Thirsty Supple

Book:100 Selected Poems

Source: 100 Selected Poems

“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: Dear Diary, I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity. God alive, I feel supple.”

Feels Writing Trying Persons Morning Alive Written Example Exercise Skins Dear Jealous Diaries Admiring Supple Old Person Elasticity

Author: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 more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.”

Mind Made Female Prepared Males Bother Disappointed Why Bother Supple Disappointed In You

Author: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 its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain.”

Mind Dream My Own Rooms Brain Grew Exercise Despair Built Window Proportion Temples Melancholy Passages Bows Palaces Lofty Cathedrals Arches Corridors Hallways Supple

Author:Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

“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 supple, sinuous. I was one great big come-hither.”

Stills Bigs Moving Cat Bottom Sensual Heat Invitations Supple

Book:The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

“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 soap bubbles.”

Lines Honor Ethics Remarkable Bubbles Justification Soap Blur Supple Soap Bubbles

Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper

“I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung.”

Source: Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall

“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 bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.”

Sometimes Lasts Week Color Bears Shapes Glory Skins Breaths Bones Witness Faithful Muscles Fades Echoes Living Things Supple

Book:The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“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 enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness.”