Foppling Quotes & Sayings

OTTO. Apes don't read philosophy.
WANDA. Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it. — John Cleese

Everything ok here ?"
Ryan grunted urging her with a hand on her lower back.
"He thinks you should mind your own business,"Makenna told the Beta,translating the grunt.
Dominic cocked his head."You understand his grunts?"
She lifted her chin."I thought it was crystal clear."
Dominic turned to Ryan."Marry her."
Ryan grunted again before heading for the door.
"What did he say?"Dominic asked her.
"Fuck off,"she translated. — Suzanne Wright

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens. — Michel, 14th Prince Of Ligne

If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success. — Eric Fellner

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity. — Warren G. Harding

Changing, being real and becoming who you want to be, is hard work. Right — Katherine Reay

The times are new, but the informers are old. — William T. Vollmann

The location of Giza and more specifically that of the Great Pyramid is not random in reference to the three only holy sites of Islam. The lunar year's quantity itself was encoded therein. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us? — Sarah Michelle Gellar

I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a common-wealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society ... . At one table sits Mr. Insipid foppling and fluttering, spinning his whirligig, or playing with his fingers as gaily and wittily as any Frenchified coxcomb brandishes his cane and rattles his snuff box. At another sits the polemical divine, plodding and wrangling in his mind about Adam's fall in which we sinned, all as his primer has it. — John Adams

It stands to reason that he who would cure a moral ailment must be practically acquainted with it in all its bearings. — Samuel Butler

Don't be sad; tomorrow and forever, we'll be together — Onew

The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world. — Hilary Mantel

Growing up, I never was a big follower of the Dodgers. — Andre Ethier