Suave Quotes

• I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me.

  Jensen Ackles

  Boys, Sound, Hot

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• When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

  Ronald Knox

  Believe, Doe, Racist

  'Absolute and Abitofhell' (1913)

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• Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.

  Marcel Proust

  Witty, Sweet, Night

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

  Jim Butcher

  Intelligent, Fabulous, Feels

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.192, Penguin

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• Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Coffee, Night, Blood

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• Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

  Kyle Chandler

  Real, Men, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.

  Alan Sugar

  Order, Trying, Needs

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• I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

  Tricia Helfer

  Latin, Thinking, Trying

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• Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

  Jerry Saltz

  Caves, Cave Paintings, Mojo

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• YES. BECAUSE THAT'S HOW I ROLL. LIKE A SUAVE THING. In fact, from here on, please forward my mail to 1 Suave Hill, Suave Boulevard, Suavieland, Planet of She's-So-Smooth-I-Can't-Believe-She's-Not-Butter.

  Michele Jaffe

  Believe, Mail, Facts

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• I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized.

  Derek Landy

  Sophisticated, Charming, Debonair

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• The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.

  Orville Prescott

  Loneliness, Differences, And Love

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• I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering.

  Robert Motherwell

  Looks, Done, Competence

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• Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

  Nancy Farmer

  Hero, Long, Admire

  Nancy Farmer (2013). “The Lord of Opium”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually about 4 a.m. His suave young men, always commuting between Princeton and The Plaza in Stutz Bearcats never sat still for long. It was too uncomfortable, with a large flask in the hip pocket.

  Richard Armour

  Art, Men, Long

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• I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Wicked, Littles, Sense Of Humor

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• I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life.

  James Marsden

  Real, Character, Fake

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• Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso three times, and they’ve never been farther than Ford in their lives.” Kate peered absently into the farm pond, and clucked again. “Thoughtless creatures. They’ve forgotten the fish.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Sheep, Three, Ponds

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• In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.

  Frank Abagnale

  Real, Men, People

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• The spectacle of advertising creates images of false beauty so suave and so impossible to attain that you will hurt inside and never even know where the hurt comes from, and in all pictures now the famous people have already begun to look lost and lonely.

  Robert Montgomery

  Lonely, Hurt, People

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• There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Horse, Passion, Vanity

  Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

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• And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others.

  Michael Chabon

  Men, Air, Max

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.131, Random House

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• I'll name check Radiohead on this--they've done a pretty suave marketing plan on this new record. I think generally it's been a pretty cool thing, but what they've done is used those (sales) numbers in a way that they can spin them anyway they want cause you don't know what they are.

  Trent Reznor

  Thinking, Numbers, Names

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• What, no flirting?” I asked, trying to buy time. “Aren’t you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all those vampire fans out there—they’d be so disappointed.” I pulled out my silver knife. Probably should have paid more attention during my knife training. “Tell you what. Let me go and I promise not to tell anyone that you aren’t suave.

  Kiersten White

  Sexy, Flirting, Thinking

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• I hate the vamp jobs. They think they're so suave. It's not enough for them to slaughter and eat you like a zombie would. No, they want to be all sexy, too. And trust me: vampires? Not. Sexy.

  Kiersten White

  Sexy, Jobs, Hate

  Kiersten White (2010). “Paranormalcy”, p.7, Harper Collins

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