Fawns Quotes

• I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

  Fidel Castro

  War, Movement, Cold

  Fidel Castro's announcement of his resignation as Prime Minister, July 17, 1959.

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• The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, Blue, Dwelling

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1326, Delphi Classics

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• Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

  George William Russell

  Twilight, Dark, Night

  George William Russell (1935). “Selected poems”

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• Good Luck is a giddy maid,
  Fickle and restless as a fawn;
  She smooths your hair; and then the jade
  Kisses you quickly, and is gone.

  Heinrich Heine

  Good Luck, Kissing, Hair

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• She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

  Raymond Chandler

  Might, Ifs

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Lady in the Lake: The Little Sister ; The Long Goodbye ; Playback”, Everyman's Library

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• It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

  Junius

  Coward, Dare, Insolent

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• I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Fake People, Over You

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• I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken

  Bob Dylan

  Girl, Taken, Skins

  Song: Ballad in Plain D, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964

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• I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

  Diogenes

  Dog, Giving, Teeth

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• Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I'm unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.

  James Dean

  Heart, Long Ago, People

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• That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

  Plato

  Political, Wish, Citizens

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• He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides

  Judy Grahn

  Mother, Husband, Princess

  Judy Grahn (1982). “The queen of wands: poetry”

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• You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love You, Flower, Said

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.707, Delphi Classics

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• How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?

  James Lee Burke

  Yellow, Car, Earth

  James Lee Burke (2011). “A Billy Bob and Hackberry Holland Ebook Boxed Set: In the Moon of Red Ponies, Rain Gods, Excerpt from Feast Day of Fools”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Song, Silly, Way

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• Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Fall, Eye, Effort

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.81, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Communication, Space

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• I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl who stood up for herself and took care of business, who cut guys loose when it was required.

  Paula McLain

  Girl, Sweet, Cutting

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• Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.

  Dorothy Parker

  Heart, Men, Two

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Men, Friendly, Littles

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• Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Bye, Jail, Empty

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Touch of Power”, p.15, MIRA

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• I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
  Too far in years to be a pupil now.

  William Shakespeare

  Education, Learning, Years

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes”, p.19

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• O villains, vipers, dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Vipers

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• Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten or a young fawn are full of grace; but to call them "elegant" animals would be absurd.

  Richard Whately

  Girl, Character, Animal

  Elizabeth Jane Whately, Richard Whately (1860). “A Selection of English Synonyms”, p.59

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• I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Art, Husband, Father

  Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

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