War Paint Quotes

• The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

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  Woodrow Wilson

  War   Men   Office  

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• You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, 'You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!', but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for, 'It's very kind of you to say so.

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  Terry Pratchett

  Baby   Sweet   Clever  

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• We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.

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  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Tattoo   War   Giving  

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.290

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• I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we have brought down from our barbarious ancestors. We have left off the war paint and war whoops, and we shall leave off the hangin' when we get civilized.

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  Marietta Holley

  War   Ideas   Reform  

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• Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.

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  Dane Cook

  Beautiful   Girl   War  

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Sep 04, 2014

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• Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

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  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Jealousy   War   Naked  

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2004). “Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes: And, The Amateur Emigrant”, Penguin Classics

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