Sweet Talk Quotes

• And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love, Sweet, Attention

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.

  Johnny Mercer

  Sweet, Night, Men

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• I give the ball some sweet talk. I tell it that this isn't going to hurt a bit. I'm a friend and all I'm going to do is give it a nice little ride.

  Sam Snead

  Sweet, Hurt, Nice

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• Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.

  Seamus Heaney

  Sweet, Nymphs, Mind

  Seamus Heaney (2010). “Opened Ground”, Faber & Faber

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• Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you're giving sweet talk or tough love.

  Judith Orloff

  Sweet, Thinking, Giving

  Judith Orloff (2009). “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life”, p.50, Harmony

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• My name is indigenous to my country, it is not easy to pronounce, it takes effort to say correctly and I am absolutely in love with the sound of it and its meaning. Also, it's not the kind of name you baby, slip into sweet talk mid sentence, late night phone conversation, whisper into the receiver kind of name, so, of that I am glad.

  Warsan Shire

  Country, Sweet, Baby

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• Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

  Petronius

  Sweet, Laughter, Use

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• It may be just one facet of your personality, or it may not even be a facet but only a pretension. You can show this false face with no problem when sometimes you meet on a sea beach, sometimes in a garden, sometimes under the moon and the stars, but when you really start living together then the reality starts surfacing. The real person is a hell and all that sweet talk that had happened under the stars becomes just lies.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Beach, Sweet

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• If you are a musician and you dont show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

  Michael Schenker

  Sweet, Rip, People

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• The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.

  Mary Oliver

  Sweet, Lying, Sea

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.41, Penguin

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• Save your sweet talk for later, Daphne. The garbage guys just drove up with the new Dumpster." "Shut the lid after you climb in.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Sweet, Guy, Garbage

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• Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love.

  Seamus Heaney

  Sweet, Believe, Heart

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes”, p.81, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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