Rakes famous quotes

Every woman is at heart a rake.
-- Alexander Pope

#Heart #Rakes #Intrigue

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?
-- Christine de Pizan

#Doe #Rakes #Skirts

Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
-- Dan Buettner

#Doors #Snow #Rakes

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake...
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#Imagination #Rakes #Earth

I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked.
-- Eugene Chadbourne

#Rakes #Ordinary #Common

Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.
-- Frank Chodorov

#Play #Giving #Rakes

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.
-- Joe Hill

#Fire #Rakes #Coal

Reformed rakes often make the best husbands
-- Judith McNaught

#Husband #Rakes #Best Husband

That drew a mocking laugh from Lillian. “Really, someone should tell St. Vincent that he’s a living cliché. He has become the embodiment of everything they say about reformed rakes.
-- Lisa Kleypas

#Laughing #Rakes #Embodiment

... you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...
-- Neal Stephenson

#Believe #Rakes #Should

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.
-- Rob Sheffield

#Dance #Thinking #Rakes

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.
-- Samuel Richardson

#Men #Rakes #Honest

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Rakes #Scholar

I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.
-- Timbaland

#Guy #Rakes #Use

It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period, telling the English some interesting things about themselves, and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.
-- Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

#Interesting #Rakes #Periods