Swank Quotes

• Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.

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  Gustave Flaubert

  Party   Coffee   Taken  

  Gustave Flaubert (1968). “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

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  George Bernard Shaw

  Men   People   Ego  

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• We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall outside our suite said: "In case of fire-break crystal."

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  Jack Paar

  Funny   Fire   California  

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• No-one gets beaten to death quite like Hilary Swank

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  Jimmy Fallon

  Hollywood   Film   Swank  

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• I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was.

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  Elisabeth Moss

  Boys   Thinking   Inspire  

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• Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.

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  Jeanette Winterson

  Cheating   Hands   Infidelity  

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• Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.

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  Hugh Laurie

  Thinking   Boxing   Soul  

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I see myself as a very successful entrepreneur. Maybe making films or else starting my own clothesline. I see myself as a corporate woman, sitting on the 16th floor of a swank office with a glass window that overlooks the Manhattan skyline.

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  Sushmita Sen

  Successful   Glasses   Office  

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