Coxcombs Quotes & Sayings

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them. — Maurice Strong

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"? — William Cobbett

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools. — Alexander Pope

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way. — Lisa Marie Presley

Besides, she has always a house full of people; and, though they are chiefly fools and coxcombs, yet there is some pleasure in cutting them up. — Fanny Burney

("intelligence" in the military meaning; a man in a suit can be just as stupid as anybody else - only he had better not be), — Robert A. Heinlein

Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings. — Ian Fleming

The thing about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, the thing that was so profound to me that summer - and yet also, like most things, so very simple - was how few choices I had and how often I had to do the thing I least wanted to do. How there was no escape or denial. No numbing it down with a martini or covering it up with a roll in the hay. As I clung to the chaparral that day, attempting to patch up my bleeding finger, terrified by every sound that the bull was coming back, I considered my options. There were only two and they were essentially the same. I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go. — Cheryl Strayed

We are here to affirm, not to deny ... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days of fribbles and counter-coxcombs, I own I find refreshing! — Georgette Heyer

Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman I knew, who would never say 'the weather grew cold,' but that 'winter begins to salute us.' I have no patience for such coxcombs ... — Dorothy Osborne

We can do better ... We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality. — Hillary Clinton

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I still believe in the old fashioned ways of showing a woman Respect and Honor!! — Angela Merkel

What a trio we are: wolf, dragon and ... " Ronan bit back the word. Shifter. He sat straighter in the saddle, raising one hand in farewell as his mount broke through the last of the boundary mists. "May the gods favor us this time, my friend. Pray Mairi Sinclair is the one. — Maeve Greyson

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme! — Charles Caleb Colton