Apish Quotes & Sayings

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. — Ambrose Bierce

You arrogant, apish, underhonest lewdster! (Maggie) — Kinley MacGregor

Denying your faith in the Lord was the ultimate no-no — Jennifer Mathieu

Because I cannot flatter and look fair,
Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
I must be held a rancorous enemy. — William Shakespeare

What's next? You want to convince me they're making another crap Last Airbender movie? — Cassandra Clare

Jeremy Taylor, Charles I's personal chaplain, wrote a tract, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, in 1650 that illustrates that not much has changed in over 360 years. He characterised drunkenness by: Apish gestures. Much talking. Immoderate laughing. Dullness of sense. Scurrility, that is wanton jeering or abusive language. A useless understanding. Stupid sleep. Epilepsies, or — Simon Wills

Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation — William Shakespeare

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well? — Stephen Jay Gould

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three. — Marcus Aurelius

It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it. — John Cusack

The only reason the field continues to grow is because of increasing demand. The more we try to make ourselves feel better, the worse we seem to feel. — Simon Sinek