Venal Quotes
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Venal Quotes & Sayings
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Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.
— Helen Mirren
Let it be said, Marcus thought dryly,that nothing cooled a man's ardor like the Crusades.
— Julia Quinn
As when we can recall so vividly
We almost touch,
Or think of all the gestures that we failed
To make. — Herbert Mason
We almost touch,
Or think of all the gestures that we failed
To make. — Herbert Mason
The magisterial presence of all those potentially readable words stopped her in her tracks.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Sometimes the best part of my day is imagining what I'm gonna eat when I get off work.
— Anna Kendrick
The chilly mist settled down around them, sinking like midnight into his bones. His arm hurt, and his heart felt like an open wound in his chest.
— Laura Kinsale
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
— Harlan Miller
The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The venal herd.
[Lat., Venale pecus.] — Juvenal
[Lat., Venale pecus.] — Juvenal
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
— Matt Taibbi
It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.
— Michael Specter
We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
— Queen Victoria
I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
— Elizabeth Bowen
A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.
— Margaret Oliphant
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
— Tony Judt
We are what we myth.
— William G. Doty
If you always say no, you'll never say yes.
— Ryan Higa
You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.
— Martin Caidin
I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.
— Grantland Rice
You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?
— Tom Robbins
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
— Erich Fromm
Our leaders, our government is us, all of us, so if they're venal and weak it's because we are.
— David Foster Wallace